Archive for July, 2008

Jul 24 2008

Collison Course in Palestine

Published by under Articles,Palestinian politics

Following appeared in the Jordan Times

Collision course

Daoud Kuttab

Without realising it, an American philanthropic organisation, planning to set up a $16.5 million children’s hospital in Palestine, is on a collision course with radical Jewish settlers at a time that American officials are constantly repeating calls for a contiguous and independent Palestinian state. One wonders how someone like Barack Obama, who is presently visiting the region, would respond to actions by Jewish settlers preventing the creation of a hospital.

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Jul 10 2008

Comprehensive approach to media needed

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Thursday, July 10th, 2008,
THE JORDAN TIMES

Comprehensive approach to media needed

Daoud Kuttab

During my free time while teaching journalism at Princeton University, I agreed to a request from the International Centre for Journalists to create and supervise an online course teaching interested Arab journalists how to set up their own news website. The course was an interesting experience in gauging the status of the internal workings of the Arab press as nearly 40 journalists (in two rounds) participated in the six-week online course. Continue Reading »

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