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Daoud Kuttab, an award-winning Palestinian journalist, is a former journalism professor at Princeton University and former director and Founder of the Institute of Modern Media at Al-Quds University in Ramallah.

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  1. The Middle East Needs a Ceasefire Now
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    The Middle East Needs a Ceasefire Now

    Apr 16, 2024 Daoud Kuttab explains why the latest escalation could lead to a truce instead of an all-out military showdown.

  2. Can Marwan Barghouti Be the Palestinian Nelson Mandela?
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    Can Marwan Barghouti Be the Palestinian Nelson Mandela?

    Feb 16, 2024 Daoud Kuttab thinks the imprisoned Fatah leader could be the key to reviving the two-state solution.

  3. Gaza’s Never-Ending Catastrophe
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    Gaza’s Never-Ending Catastrophe

    Oct 19, 2023 Daoud Kuttab draws parallels between the current war and the events that led to Palestinians’ deepest national trauma.

  4. A Winning World Cup Strategy for the Arab World
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    A Winning World Cup Strategy for the Arab World

    Dec 13, 2022 Daoud Kuttab asks whether Arab enthusiasm stirred by Morocco’s success can translate into broader regional cohesion.

  5. Resuscitating the Two-State Solution
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    Resuscitating the Two-State Solution

    Jul 13, 2022 Daoud Kuttab explains what American and Israeli leaders could do to change an increasingly unsustainable status quo.

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    The Rise of the Finternet

    Agustín Carstens & Nandan Nilekani foresee a world in which cheap, secure, and near-instantaneous financial transactions are available to all.
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    Don’t Fret About Green Subsidies

    Dani Rodrik sees no good argument against industrial policies that accelerate growth in decarbonization industries.
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    Europe’s Geoeconomic Competitiveness Challenge

    Daniel Gros highlights the security risks raised by the prolonged decline of the EU’s relative economic power.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

    Yuen Yuen Ang

    While both the American and Chinese Gilded Ages raised material standards of living for hundreds of millions of people, their endemic corruption produced radically unequal and unsustainable growth. Ultimately, both periods offer cautionary tales about unbridled crony capitalism, not models for blind emulation.

     explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.
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    Will India’s Election Destroy Its Democracy?

    Since taking power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have stoked Hindu nationalism, hollowed out India’s democracy, and overseen an economy that is probably performing far worse than official figures suggest. And yet Modi and the BJP are genuinely popular, making them likely – though not certain – to emerge victorious when the ongoing parliamentary election concludes in June.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism

    Shlomo Ben-Ami warns that demonizing all Israelis will only make peace less likely – though that may be the point.
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    How to Close the Gender Wage Gap

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir argues that Iceland’s experience lends further support to Nobel laureate economist Claudia Goldin’s research.
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    Getting the Pandemic Treaty Across the Finish Line

    Gordon Brown hopes negotiations will conclude this month, and pushes back on a last-minute wave of misinformation.
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    When Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?

    Peter Singer rejects comparisons of the recent US campus protests to the actions of Nazi student groups in the 1930s.

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