Palestine, media, Jordan, community radio, online journalism
By Daoud Kuttab/ Sharm el Sheikh A resounding and unanimous international message of support was sounded in the Red sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh March 2 with the participation of world leaders. Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak along with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, UN Secretary General and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were joined with foreign ministers…
By Daoud Kuttab blogging with the US secretary of state’s press corps in Sharm el Sheikh Despite the clarity of the conference title the US will provide far more help to the Palestinian Authority and the people of the West Bank than to the people of Gaza In a press briefing on the eve of…
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…
It ended rather quickly. After punching in the grades on the special peoplesoft web site of the university my last formal activity at Princeton University was over. In the span of this year I taught upper class students a seminar entitled New Media in the Arab world, ran a freshman seminar class entitled Authentic Arab…
By Daoud Kuttab A decision by the outgoing Bakhit government rejecting an application for a radio license has exposed one of the major weaknesses of the current Jordanian Audio Visual Law. The applicant (author of this article) had requested permission to initiate a community radio station for the third largest city in Jordan, Zarqa. The…
Google in Arabic to find out It might be fashionable these days to attack Islam and Muslims (Islam’s†Silent Moderates†December 7), but Ms. Ayaan Hisi Ali’s article fails on two important counts. Taking a religious passage out of context might please certain circles, that are bent on dehumanizing an entire people and region, but…
Zuckerman’s factless facts Mortimer Zuckerman lists in “Perilous path to peace†Daily News Monday the 3rd of December as “hard facts†items that are not so. Fatah has not “virtually ceased to exist in the West Bank.†Fatah did not lose to Hamas the Ramallah mayoral elections. The mayor Janet Mikil although not a Fatah…
July 4, 2007 The July 4th reception at the US consulate in west Jerusalem is always a unique event. This is probably the only place that you will see Israelis and Palestinians mingling freely. While the majority of Israeli officials attend the Tel Aviv party, Jerusalem’s event is largely attended by Palestinians, Israeli local officials,…
following appeared in the Jordan Times Bearing responsibility for causing the refugee problem Daoud Kuttab The harsh statement by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that he would not allow a single Palestinian refugee to return to Israel did not bother me much. Knowing what I know about the long-term desires of most Palestinians,…