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Daoud Kuttab

Daoud Kuttab

Jun 11, 2019

New Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh stands next to President Mahmoud Abbas during a swearing in ceremony of a new government, in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 13, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman - RC1F397216C0 — Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh stands next to President Mahmoud Abbas during a swearing in ceremony of a new government, Ramallah, West Bank, April 13, 2019. — REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

Washington’s attempt to impose Mideast peace will backfire

Daoud Kuttab

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics

Egypt, Palestine make plans to boost economic ties

Daoud Kuttab

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics

Likud legislator Miri Regev, a former brigadier general and political hardliner of Moroccan origin, looks out a car window during a campaign stop in Netanya, north of Tel Aviv February 25, 2015. Israel's Sephardic community, Jews of Middle Eastern descent, have traditionally been the Likud party's backbone. But political analysts say Sephardim, disproportionately poorer than Israel's Ashkenazi Jews with roots in Europe, may throw their support elsewhere in the March 17 election, angry over the high cost of

Is Israel's culture minister drunk with power?

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

Palestinians sit in a tent that has been set up on top of the ruins of a building destroyed in recent Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City, on May 24, 2021. A cease-fire was reached late last week after 11 days of deadly violence between Israel and the Hamas movement, which runs Gaza.

The heavy toll of Israel-Hamas war, by the numbers

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff