Daoud Kuttab

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Journalist, Freelance

Jordan

Media, Middle East

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Covers: Politics, Religion, media, Christian tourism, human rights, media freedoms

Doesn't Cover: Sports, fashion, food and russia

Palestinian journalist @AlMonitor @ArabNews, Princeton U. Jor. prof. @AmmanNet. @milhilard DG of CMN. Books: Sesame Street, Palestine, State of Palestine NOW

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Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist and media activist. He is the former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. Daoud Kuttab is the former director-general of the Community Media Network (CMN), a not-for-profit media organization dedicated to advancing independent media in the Arab region. CMN is registered in Jordan and Palestine and administers Radio al Balad in Amman and www.ammannet.net

Born in Jerusalem in 1955, Kuttab studied in the United States and has been working…

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Two Arab Journalists, One Levant | Natasha Tynes | Substack

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Homepage - The New Arab

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American Lawyers Talk about Inheritance, Wills, and Adoption in the U.S

Aug 20, 2026 |

By Daoud Kuttab

| milhilard.org

by Daoud Kuttab Lawyers specializing in inheritance law have discussed how the United States handles disputes arising after a will is executed, particularly when family circumstances change, spouses remarry, or heirs challenge disinheritance rulings. In an interview with milhilard.net, Virginia attorneys Robert Brown and Garrett Kizer noted that the rules vary from state to state.

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Two Arab Journalists, One Levant

Aug 17, 2026 |

By Daoud Kuttab

| Substack

Two Arab Journalists, One Levant is a weekly conversation on the Middle East today, hosted by veteran journalists Daoud Kuttab, based between Jerusalem and Amman, and Natasha Tynes in Washington, DC. Each week, we bring two Arab perspectives — and three Two Arab Journalists, One Levant is a weekly conversation on the Middle East today, hosted by veteran journalists Daoud Kuttab, based between Jerusalem and Amman, and Natasha Tynes in Washington, DC.

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Kushner's meeting with Hamas should not exclude meeting with Abbas

Aug 17, 2026 |

By Daoud Kuttab

| Substack

Left: American Jerd Kushner, right: Hamas’s Khalil Hayya. I have no problem with President Trump’s son-in-law meeting with Khalil Hayya, the newly elected leader of Hamas. In fact, I like the fact that Trump has no qualms about meetings with radicals, whether it be the Taliban, Hizballah, or Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. What I do have a problem with is that Jared Kushner appears to be following the same playbook used by Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials over five decades.

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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

a report on news in Jerusalem

Have you ever used a typewriter?

yes

How is social media changing news?

tips to news story ideas

Awards

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Press Freedom Award by CPJ

1996 - Press Freedom

award honoring press freedom journalists

Freedom to write by US Pen West

1997 - Writing

An award given by the LA based Pen Club West

Press Hero

2000 - Press Hero

Given to 50 press heroes in the past 50 years by the Vienna-based International Press Institute the oldest NGO working for press freedom in the world