Daoud Kuttab

Palestine, media, Jordan, community radio, online journalism

  • An Arab “Third Way”

      By Daoud Kuttab AMMAN – Throughout the post-colonial period, Arab countries have consistently failed to produce an efficient – let alone democratic – system of government. Now, after a half-century of competition between military or royal dictatorships and militant Islamist regimes, many Arabs are again seeking a “third way” – a path toward a…

  • Two-State Solution Under Siege

      by Daoud Kuttab Proponents of the two-state solution have for years faced a grim outlook. Every new Jewish settlement that pops up on the lands slated for a Palestinian state has added to the despair and disillusionment with any peace process. After 46 years of military occupation and colonial policies highlighted by an aggressive attempt to build…

  • Russia’s Mideast Role A Plus for Palestinians

      By Daoud Kuttab The Russian-American breakthrough that has averted an attack on Syria for using chemical weapons has given some in the Middle East hope that such cooperation can be helpful in the Arab-Israeli conflict. While this week marks the 40th anniversary of the 1973 war, few are suggesting that the current US-Russian cooperation…

  • Naming and Shaming in Jordan

      By Daoud Kuttab Musab Shawabkeh, the skinny young journalist who has been involved in investigative journalism since his second year at college came running to my office this week. He had made a discovery about Mawared, the flag ship company owned by the Jordanian armed forces. As part of a report he was researching…

  • The Russians are coming

      Following appeared in Jordan Times and Huffington Post. By Daoud Kuttab Shortly after the vote in the British parliament to oppose a strike on Syria, an American newspaper reported the decision of the House of Commons in an unusual way. In a spoof to the independence cry, the Daily News ran a front-page headline repeating twice…

  • 15 Ways Oslo Accords Serve Israel

      By Daoud Kuttab Twenty years ago, then-Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the White House lawn to publicly declare mutual recognition and to sign the interim memorandum of understanding that had been agreed to in secret talks in Oslo. The Oslo Accordsand the various agreements…

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