Has Hamas won???
Following was published in Bitterlemons Bitterlemons, 01/09/08 A PALESTINIAN VIEW Local priorities by Daoud Kuttab Whether those supporting the moderate leadership of palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas admit it or not, Hamas appears to have won. Now, before Islamists around the world start celebrating, it is important to note that the region, let alone the […]
Presidential elections and I
Until my family and I landed in New Jersey in August 2007, I had lost touch with what it meant to be a US citizen. I had arrived in Jersey City in 1969 as a 14 year old boy with my family who immigrated from the Palestinian areas. In 1980 after college and a few […]
Time and negotiations
The following appeared in the Jordan Times and the Jerusalem Post Daoud Kuttab Time has played a major role in most negotiations. Whether they are labour or political negotiations, each side of a conflict waits literally till the very last minute before revealing its true position. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud […]
Ramadan Reveals Importance of Community Versus Individual
by Daoud Kuttab Amman, Jordan– Ever since our family returned from the US, I have been repeatedly asked to compare life in America to life in the Middle East. For the 2007-’08 academic year I served as a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University and a lecturer at the Near East department. With our […]
Collison Course in Palestine
Following appeared in the Jordan Times Collision course Daoud Kuttab Without realising it, an American philanthropic organisation, planning to set up a $16.5 million children’s hospital in Palestine, is on a collision course with radical Jewish settlers at a time that American officials are constantly repeating calls for a contiguous and independent Palestinian state. One […]
Comprehensive approach to media needed
Thursday, July 10th, 2008, THE JORDAN TIMES Comprehensive approach to media needed Daoud Kuttab During my free time while teaching journalism at Princeton University, I agreed to a request from the International Centre for Journalists to create and supervise an online course teaching interested Arab journalists how to set up their own news website. The […]
Fabricated report about McCaine advisor draws attention in Jordan
Mideast suspicion of US foreign policy fertile grounds for rumors By Daoud Kuttab Initially it seemed like a true story. A blogger reports on a lecture given by an advisor to the republican presidential nominee making outrageously radical statements. It should have raised some eyebrows but it didn’t. The blog starts by the name of […]
AP story about AmmanNet radio
Local community radio breaks Arab sound barrier Sun, 12-11-2006 By Dale Gavlak, The Associated Press AMMAN, November 12 — The breathless caller was desperate, with nowhere else to turn: “Help me get a bedouin and his camels and sheep out of my street,†he pleaded. “The herd nearly attacked two neighborhood boys.†Another caller wanted […]
Jordanian lower house sues Radio Al Balad
Jordanian lower house sues Radio Al-Balad for “insulting” chamber LENGTH: 405 words Text of report in English by privately-owned Jordan Times newspaper on 5 March [Report by Mohammad Ghazal: “Radio Al Balad banned from broadcasting Lower House sessions”] AMMAN -The Lower House has filed a lawsuit against Radio Al Balad, formerly Ammannet, and banned it […]
There is no avoiding land for peace
There is no avoiding land for peace Daoud Kuttab After Israel’s crushing defeat and occupation of Arab lands in 1967, the United Nations introduced the concept of land for peace into the conflict by unanimously enacting Security Council Resolution 242. Much has been said about whether the resolution demands Israel to withdraw from all “the […]