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Daoud Kuttab

داود كتّاب

born 1955

Born in Jerusalem on 1 April 1955 to a Christian family and raised in Bethlehem, he was managing editor of the English edition of al-Fajr from 1982 to 1987 and wrote for al-Quds. He founded the Jerusalem Film Institute in 1990, the Arabic Media Internet Network in 1995 and the Institute of Modern Media at al-Quds University; in 1997 the Palestinian Authority held him without charge for a week after he broadcast the Legislative Council live. He received the Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists in 1996.

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document · PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs

Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory

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