Daoud Kuttab

Daoud Kuttab is a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University ('07-'08). While at Princeton he taught a seminar on new media in the Arab world. Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist and media activists. Born in Jerusalem in 1955, Kuttab studied in the United States and has been working in journalism ever since 1980.
He has worked in the Arabic print press (Al Fajr, Al Quds and Assinara)
before moving to the audio visual field. He established and presided
over the Jerusalem Film Institute in the 90s. In 1995 he helped
establish the Aabic Media Internet Network (AMIN) a censorship free
Arab web site. www.amin.org .He established and has headed since 1996
the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University until January 2008
when he resigned to focus on Community Media Network an Arab Media NGO
registered in Jordan and Palestine. In 1997 he partially moved to Amman
(because of family tragedy and remarriage) and in 2000 established the
Arab world's first internet radio station AmmanNet (www.ammannet.net ).
Mr. Kuttab is active in media freedom efforts in the Middle East. He is
an award winning journalist and TV producer. Community Media Network
includes Radio al Balad a community radio station broadcasting on 92.4
FM in Amman, Jordan, AmmanNet.net and PEN Media a media NGO that has
been contracted to produce 52 new episodes of Shara'a Simsim, the
Palestinian version of Sesame Street.
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