Daoud Kuttab

Journalist

Daoud Kuttab is an award-winning Palestinian journalist and media activist. He is a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University and is currently director-general of Community Media Network, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing independent media in the Arab region, as well as a columnist for Palestine Pulse at Al-Monitor, Born in Jerusalem, he began his journalism career working in the Palestinian print media (al-Fajr, al-Quds, and a-Sennara) as well as in the audiovisual field (documentary producer). He founded and presided over the Jerusalem Film Institute in the 1990s. In 1995, he helped set up the Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN), a censorship-free Arab website. He established and has headed from 1996 to 2007 the Institute of Modern Media at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. He is also a regular columnist for the Jordan Times, the Jerusalem Post, and the Daily Star in Lebanon.

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Blog Post Perspective: Kufr ‘Aqab’s Chaos Creates Survivors

Jerusalem residents pay taxes to Israel and are supposed to get services in return. Instead they were abandoned.

Feature Story Jerusalem Receives a New Islamic Waqf Council amid Increasing Israeli Violations of al-Aqsa Mosque

Jerusalem’s new Islamic Waqf Council is announced amid increasing extremist Jewish incursions into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound

Blog Post Perspective: Jordan’s Attachment to Old Rules for Israeli Entry Permits Burdens and Deters Jerusalemites from Traveling

Time to reconsider outdated requirements for Israeli entry permits from Jordan

Feature Story Freeze on Church Accounts Lifted after Direct Pressure from Israel’s PM and the US

Churches find themselves in the city’s crosshairs.

Blog Post On World Tourism Day, Tourism in Jerusalem Is “Virtually at a Standstill”

For World Tourism Day, read the reflections of Jerusalemite tourism leaders on the waning tourism in the city.

Blog Post Perspective: East Jerusalem Is Where Western Powers’ Recognition of Palestine Matters Most

After all the illegal changes that Israel has undertaken in East Jerusalem, trying to make the city its own, recognition of Palestine by Western powers reasserts Palestinians’ rights here.

Feature Story Back to School Not Guaranteed for Palestinian Students in Jerusalem, Hundreds Left with No Schooling

Palestinian students are in the crosshairs of the state, which sees education as a major frontier in its battle for control.

Feature Story Palestinian Reporters Threatened with Jail over Old City Coverage

Palestinian journalists reporting in Jerusalem’s Old City risk attacks, arrest in unwritten press ban.

Blog Post Morocco and Jerusalem: A Deep and Historical Relationship Fraught with Political Complexities

Palestinians are skeptical of Morocco’s initiatives in Jerusalem against the backdrop of its increasing normalization with Israel.