This Bad Era Will Soon Be Over
This Bad Era Will Soon Be Over Not that professor Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University needs my help, but I couldn’t help staying quiet as the Republican smear machine picked on this soft-speaking American of Palestinian origin. I first met Professor Khalidi in the old city of Jerusalem. He was on a multi year summer […]
Palestinian academic: Hamas, Fatah waging ‘nasty’ war online
From Haaretz Palestinian academic Daoud Kuttab warned Monday that while the digital era has seen greater media freedom in the Arab world, Hamas and Fatah are using technology in a negative way in their battle for supremacy in the Palestinian territories. Kuttab, who was speaking at a conference marking the 10th anniversary of the Peres […]
Towards a winning Palestinian strategy
Following appeared in the Jordan Times Daoud Kuttab I must say I wasn’t surprised when I read the statements made by outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. I had been informed by an Israeli friend of mine about Olmert’s dramatic conversion over the past few years, and especially last year. The […]
Evangelical Palin Violating Biblical Command
Daoud Kuttab Posted on the Huffington Post October 6, 2008 | 06:23 PM (EST) I was astonished as I read the details of Sarah and Todd Palin’s 2006 and 2007 tax returns. What triggered my attention was the line item on the percentage of the Evangelical couple’s contributions to charity. Normally this line item can […]
Maybe the time is ripe for national unity
Daoud Kuttab I could be wrong, but I have a feeling that the upcoming Palestinian national unity talks have a better chance at success than in previous times. I am not naive. This optimistic prediction can turn out terribly wrong, but I think the time is now ripe, the parties are much more realistic in […]
Arabs and the Olympics
The Arabs and the Olympics Daoud Kuttab As we watched the Olympics, my nine-year-old daughter Dina kept on hounding me this week. Where are the Arabs, she kept on asking every time a medal was issued? Where are the Palestinians, where are the Jordanians she kept on asking every time a list of players was […]
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 […]