Another shameful veto
By Daoud Kuttab US President Barack Obama was on the right side of history when he supported the young, nonviolent protesters in Egypt, but his administration will go down in history as unjust after Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN, vetoed, on Friday, a UN Security Council resolution condemning Jewish settlements illegally build […]
Radio Helping Out World Cup Fans in Jordan
(This was published in June 29th, 2010) By Daoud Kuttab Ingenuity and media entrepreneurship, helped out by technological changes, provided a rare opportunity for many Jordanians to follow their favorite teams vying for the World Cup. For the second time in eight years, football fans in Jordan were denied the pleasure of watching the World […]
Obama’s Veto Is the Wrong Side of History
By Daoud Kuttab President Obama was on the right side of history when he supported the young nonviolent protestors in Egypt. The Obama administration was on the wrong side of history when Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN raised her hand vetoing a UN Security Council resolution condemning Jewish settlements. The resolution supported […]
Still missing in the Arab world: assembly, free speech
DAOUD KUTTAB From Thursday’s Globe and Mail Ten years ago, I established AmmanNet, the Arab world’s first Internet radio that used technology to create audio and text content freely. Independent radio didn’t exist in Jordan at the time, and it still doesn’t in most Arab countries. The only stations allowed then were governmental. Terrestrial radio […]
Real freedom of assembly and expression still missing
Following appeared in today’s Jordan Times Real Freedom of Expression still missing By Daoud Kuttab Change to democracy in many Arab countries hinges on their people being able to enjoy two basic rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the right to assembly and freedom of expression. For decades, most Arab rulers have […]
Press freedom in Jordan
This article appeared in Jo magazine ( http://bit.ly/hmpZGx ) FEBRUARY 06, 2011 IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG for the new administration to get riled up about the media. Just before the turn of the new year, two deputies got into a verbal exchange of insults over backdoor deals for committee membership and when the media exposed the […]
The Palestinian Travel Experience
Published in the Jerusalem Post February 11, 2011 By DAOUD KUTTAB Several days before Tuesday January 18, someone in the IDF made a decision that affected thousands of people, Israelis, Palestinians and others. Hundreds of decisions like this are made on a daily basis in the IDF’s Tel Aviv headquarters. That day, Russian President Dimitry […]
Arab uprisings winners and losers
By Daoud Kuttab While it is not clear when and how the popular revolt in Egypt will end, it is clear that the winners and losers, following the present uprising, throughout the Arab world can be identified. It might be a cliché to state that tyrants are the biggest losers and peoples are the winners, […]
Why Do U.S. Officials Boycott Bethlehem’s Mayor?
Why does the US boycott one of its own citizens who happens to be the Christian mayor of Bethlehem? This has been the case regarding Victor Batarseh, the elected mayor of the Palestinian town of Bethlehem.<img alt=”2011-02-08-kuttab.jpg” src=”http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2011-02-08-kuttab.jpg” width=”450″ height=”605″ /> Batarseh, a Roman Catholic physician and a U.S. citizen, ran in the municipal elections […]
Connected Arab youths
By Daoud Kuttab To understand what is happening in the Arab world today one needs to know only two things: that the majority of Arabs are young and for the most part connected to the net, and that despite the fear mongerers in the West, these connected Arab youths are secular although not totally opposed […]