In Ramallah, a Wedding Stands Against the Chaos and Hate
By Daoud Kuttab Weddings in Ramallah usually take place on Saturdays or Sundays. But when my daughter Tania and her in-laws to be were discussing her wedding date, the main concern was to avoid the World Cup finals. The only available date was Friday, July 11th. Little did we know last April, when we met […]
Three Countries, Two Weddings and One Couple
By Daoud Kuttab This week, family and friends crossed international borders and military checkpoints and overcame the usual political bureaucracies to attend my daughter’s two weddings. Why two weddings? Let me explain. Like me, my daughter Tamara is a Jerusalemite. The bridegroom, Alaa, lives in the Bethlehem-area town of Beit Jala. It takes minutes to move between […]
Five working days in Doha, QATAR
I spent five working days in the Qatari capital of Doha teaching a course on writing opinions behalf of the International Center for Journalists. Forty Qataris between journalists and public servants involved in media issues attended in two repeated sessions held at the Qatar News Agency with twenty in either morning or afternoon session.
Residency and Naturalization
(This was published in May 20th, 2010) By Daoud Kuttab My eldest daughter, Tamara, who studied and worked in the US, finally got her own Israeli-issued residency ID for Jerusalem. It took her seven years to accomplish this feat despite the fact that she was born and raised in Jerusalem to parents holding Jerusalem residency. […]
Growing up in Bethlehem with the Dead Sea Scrolls story
By Daoud Kuttab The latest news about Jordan’s demands that Canada seize the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were on display in Toronto, brings back many childhood memories for me. For perspective this is what has happened. Jordan has requested Canada to take custody of the scrolls, citing the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of […]
In Gaza: Mostly Phone Terror But Some Encouraging Calls
In Gaza: Mostly Phone Terror But Some Encouraging Calls by Daoud Kuttab My cousin Sami Awad’s uncle Emile Farah, his wife, three children and an aunt live in the Rimal neighborhood in the center of Gaza city. Thursday was a day of terror for them as well as the Awad’s in Bethlehem. A number of […]
The Kippa, the Keffiya, Green and Orange
published in the Huffington post The Kippa, the Keffiya, Green and Orange by Daoud Kuttab Upon arriving for my freshman orientation at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania back in 1971, I was asked to wear a cardboard beanie. Having just come from Jerusalem I was rather upset at having to wear that head covering. The […]
Daoud Kuttab: Journalism Professor at Princeton
Daoud Kuttab: Journalism Professor at Princeton Veteran Arab journalist Daoud Kuttab left for the US August 9th to take up a teaching post at Princeton University. Kuttab is the first Arab to ever win the prestigious Ferris Journalism  Professorship. He plans to teach a course on new media in the Arab world.  Kuttab who writes in local […]
Pardon is not part of the Israeli lexicon
Pardon is not  part of the Israeli lexicon? By Daoud Kuttab I still remember that hot day in the summer of 1994 when Jordan’s King Hussein signed the peace treaty with Israel’s Yitshaq Rabin in Wadi Araba. I had gone down to cover the event and remember Buthina Duqmaq of the Mandella Institute for […]
How the occupation came to me as a young boy
By Daoud Kuttab Both my parents were away from home on the eve of the June 1967 war and I was home alone with my younger siblings. At the time we were living near in a rented house next to Rachel’s Tomb just outside Bethlehem. Jordanian soldiers were posted near our home and I remember […]