Daoud Kuttab

Palestine, media, Jordan, community radio, online journalism

  • Why the Muslim Brotherhood Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon

    By Daoud Kuttab AMMAN — In the end they withdrew their call for a demonstration. The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan wereplanning to celebrate their 70th anniversary on Friday, in spite of the Jordanian government’s public refusal to allow the event to take place. The huge pressure that the government felt shows that the Muslim Brotherhood…

  • The switch to digital television faces bumpy road in Palestine

    By Daoud Kuttab For most Palestinians, July 17, 2015, means very little. But for those who have long been working toward the migration of all Palestinian TV frequencies from analogue to digital, the date has been etched in stone. Mandated by the International Telecommunications Union and approved by the Arab League, all Arab states agreed in 2006 to turn off the…

  • After 15 years some Palestinian doctors now drive into Israel

    By Daoud Kuttab The news report was short, but was broadcast widely in the Palestinian and Arab media. Social media platforms have been buzzing as well. After 15 years of its unjustified ban, Israel has allowed a few Palestinian doctors to use their West Bank cars to reach Israeli hospitals, where they have been accepted for training.  The head of…

  • Muslim Brotherhood’s choices

    Following appeared in the Jordan Times newspaper By Daoud Kuttab The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan is planning to celebrate its 70th anniversary on Friday in spite of public refusal of the Jordanian government to allow this event to take place. In Palestine, supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood’s affiliate, Hamas, won the elections for student council…

  • WHY DO PEOPLE GO TO WAR?

    By Daoud Kuttab is may be an existential question, but why, indeed, do people go to war? One reason people and nations go to war is to settle a dispute that they are unable to resolve peacefully. The stubbornness exhibited in this case is often based on a lie that is perpetuated and repeated so…

  • THERE CAN BE NO PEACE WITHOUT AN END TO OCCUPATION

    By Daoud Kuttab Out of nowhere this week, two prominent individuals came out in support of the two-state solution as the best way to move the dormant Palestinian-Israeli conflict forward. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, whose organisation is part of the comatose Quartet, spoke at a special session of the UN Security Council in New York…

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