Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist and media activists He is the former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. Daoud Kuttab is currently the director general of 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, Pen Media in Ramallah and www.ammannet.net (on cyberspace).
Born in Jerusalem in 1955, Kuttab studied in the United States and has worked in journalism since 1980. He has worked in the Arabic print press (Al-Fajr, Al-Quds and Assinara) Before moving to the audiovisual field. He established and presided over the Jerusalem Film Institute in the 90s. In 1995, he helped establish the Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN), a censorship-free Arab website www.amin.org.He established and headed from 1996 to 2007 the Institute of Modern Media at Al-Quds University. 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 a regular columnist for the Jordan Times, The Jerusalem Post, and the Daily Star in Lebanon. He has co-produced several award-winning documentaries and children's television programs. His op-ed columns have appeared in The NY Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Shimbum Daily in Tokyo. He has received several international awards, among them the CPJ Freedom of Expression Award, the IPI World Press Freedom Hero, PEN Club USA Writing Freedom Award, and the Leipzig Courage in Freedom Award. He is a regular columnist on Huffington Post and the Washington Post’s Post Global blog. Mr. Kuttab is the director general of Community Media Network a not-for-profit media NGO working in Jordan and Palestine. In Jordan, CMN runs Radio al Balad and AmmanNet.
