Palestine, media, Jordan, community radio, online journalism
This is a personal story of the discrimination we faced trying to get a residency ID issued for our daughter By Daoud Kuttab My wife and I were born in east Jerusalem before Israel’s 1967 occupation of the city. Our youngest daughter, Dina, was also born in Jerusalem. We have kept a home in Jerusalem,…
By Daoud Kuttab This week I became a grandfather. My eldest daughter, Tamara, gave birth to a baby girl in Jerusalem; baby and mother are healthy and fine. This piece of good news did not come so easily emotionally or politically, however. For weeks, we have been hearing, seeing and talking to people about children…
I have always believed that work on the American scene is of utmost importance for the advancement of the Palestinian cause. While there are many American-Palestinian organizations working in the US few had the methodology and ideology that can speak to the American mind and influence an American political establishment that has been taken hostage…
I splurged on myself this month. I spent $10,000 to make my life easier. This money was not spent on buying a new car or a more comfortable bed. In fact this money was spent without receiving any tangible commodity or service. I dolled out this money to make my travel from Amman to Jerusalem…
I spent three days in the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia attending a seminar for the renewed sesame street program Iftah ya Simsim. The conference was well organized and the attendees mostly from the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council were very keen on its success. My impressions of the Saudi capital and…
The following blog appeared in the New York Times “Room for Debate” section Abbas Has Not Resigned Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist and a former Ferris professor of journalism at Princeton University. President Abbas’s decision not to seek another term as head of the Palestinian Authority complicates issues but it also clarifies them. The…
By Daoud Kuttab It was 9:47 on Tuesday October 12th, 2009 when studio director Saed Andoni made the oft repeated word in film and television. Action. The action he was calling for was the filming of a short scene of a limbo set representing the bedroom of the Palestinian muppet character, Karim. The filming of…
By Daoud Kuttab Except for a short encounter on a plane years ago, I had never met in person Salam Fayyad. I certainly didn’t have any communications with him before I wrote the piece praising his two year planhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/daoud-kuttab/fayyads-brilliant-two-yea_b_270253.html for Palestinian statehood. No one from his office had sent me a copy of the plan…
By Daoud Kuttab This is a story about one fleet of vans, two companies and three governments. The van is a 9 seat hundai which travels a three kilometer route joining the passport terminal on both sides of the King Hussein Bridge. The companies are a Jordanian one and an Israeli. The Jordanian company: the…
How to create genuine narrative By Daoud Kuttab The film won Arab and international praise for its courage in tackling some of Palestine’s more difficult issues. But the hardest and most obnoxious reviewers were back at home. The fiction movie is Najwa Najjar’s “Pomegranates and Myrrhâ€, which opened the Dubai International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Sundance…