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Jamal Dajani is an award-winning producer and Vice President of International News at Link TV. He has produced more than 2,000 episodes of the Peabody Award winning news show, Mosaic: World News from the Middle East. He is also the host of the Mosaic Intelligence Report and has worked as producer and in an editorial capacity on several Link TV productions including, Occupied Minds and Who Speaks for Islam? Jamal is a frequent commentator on national and international television and radio networks. He serves on the board of directors of New America Media and on the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. Dajani holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Columbia University.
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Blog Entries by Jamal Dajani

Israel: Occupation or Apartheid?

20 Comments | Posted February 5, 2010 | 10:01 AM (EST)


The dreaded "A-Word" has once again made its way into Israeli media, not by a leftist "self-hating Jew", but by a prominent Israeli politician, the Minister of Defense, who is a decorated soldier and a former prime minister as well. "A" is for Apartheid.

An awful word that evokes awful...

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Haiti: A View from the Middle East

14 Comments | Posted January 22, 2010 | 10:26 AM (EST)









Seldom does one watch a lead news story on Middle Eastern satellite television that does not offer a steady rotating stream of images of death, destruction, and devastation from places like Gaza, Fallujah, or Kabul. These past few days, however, although the images were familiar, they were from Haiti, and...






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Jordan: Al-Qaeda Hotbed?

14 Comments | Posted January 15, 2010 | 09:45 AM (EST)









The recent incident of the Jordanian suicide bomber who blew himself up at a Central Intelligence Agency base in Khost Province, Afghanistan, took many Jordanians by surprise, especially when they learned through the media about the depth of the cooperation between their government's intelligence service Mukhabarat and the United States...

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Lost in Translation

64 Comments | Posted January 8, 2010 | 08:08 AM (EST)









"The buck stops with me," declared President Obama on Thursday as he spoke about the results of an internal investigation into the failed Christmas Day airline bombing attempt. The president avoided blaming any particular agency or official for the security failures that allowed Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board an...

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Gaza: Forsaken but Not Forgotten

55 Comments | Posted December 31, 2009 | 11:40 AM (EST)


EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Border- They came in buses and cars from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and the Galilee: Palestinians, Israelis, and few international activists. They waved Palestinian flags and carried banners chanting in Arabic and Hebrew: "Break the Siege," "Set Gaza Free," and "Down with Netanyahu and Mubarak."

"Welcome to Erez...

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Obama's Surge: The Real Reason

71 Comments | Posted December 4, 2009 | 10:07 AM (EST)


Every year on the anniversary of September 11, the same question pops up: where is Osama bin Laden? And for eight years various pundits, who hardly speak a word of Pashto, Dari, Urdu or any other language spoken in the region, play the guessing game, placing him somewhere along the...

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Palestine 1001 Nights

36 Comments | Posted November 20, 2009 | 10:12 AM (EST)


"Hamas is negotiating with Israel:" this is what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas confidently said to a BBC-Arabic reporter in an exclusive interview. How does he know? Abbas asserted that there are "no secrets in Israel."

If things could only be this simple in the Middle East, Mr. Abbas would...

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The Saudi-Iranian Neo Cold War

31 Comments | Posted November 13, 2009 | 10:04 AM (EST)


It's been four months since I described Yemen as a powder keg ready to explode. At the time the entire world was riveted to the television, watching the unfolding events of the "Velvet Revolution" in Iran. The Yemeni keg has since exploded. It is currently on the verge of...

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Don't Ask Me About Hasan

171 Comments | Posted November 6, 2009 | 01:58 PM (EST)


Seven messages and counting on my voice mail from different Bay Area reporters, all wanting to know the Muslim community's reaction about the recent heinous killings of Nidal Malik Hasan. All wanting to know what had driven a 39-year-old Muslim to go on a killing rampage, murdering 13 people in...

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Taliban: If You Can't Beat Them, Buy Them!

25 Comments | Posted October 29, 2009 | 10:23 AM (EST)


The story the New York Times published this week on Hamid Karzai's drug-dealing brother Ahmed Wali and his ties to the CIA is very revealing, considering it comes just few days before Afghanistan's run-off election; however, it is not the real news. It has been rumored for years that...

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Afghanistan: Fraud, Opium, and Taliban

18 Comments | Posted October 23, 2009 | 10:37 AM (EST)


If someone is caught cheating in the Olympics or another sporting event, the athlete is immediately disqualified, and it is seen as a disgrace. In the case of the recent election in Afghanistan however, cheating has been rewarded and even praised by no less than the President of the United...

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Israel-Turkey: No TV Drama

17 Comments | Posted October 16, 2009 | 10:26 AM (EST)


It's amazing what a little controversy can do to the ratings of a mediocre television show: it drives them up through the roof. And that's exactly what happened to what used to be a "barely-watched" Turkish drama series called Ayrilik: a love story that develops between the lead characters during...

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The Vichy Government of Palestine

27 Comments | Posted October 9, 2009 | 09:48 AM (EST)


It is not the first time Palestinians have called for the resignation of Mahmoud Abbas. When Hamas swept to victory in the Palestinian Parliamentary Elections in January 2006, angry mobs from the defeated Fatah party staged rallies in the Gaza Strip, calling for his resignation. Many gathered outside the parliament...

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Israel vs. Iran: The Writing Is on the Wall

365 Comments | Posted October 2, 2009 | 11:02 AM (EST)


Iran has agreed to allow international nuclear inspectors to view its recently revealed uranium enrichment plant near the city of Qom, and President Obama has called talks between U.S. diplomats and their Iranian counterparts about the country's nuclear program a "constructive beginning."

However, recent events and heated rhetoric concerning...

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Goldstone's Rosh Hashanah Bomb

58 Comments | Posted September 18, 2009 | 10:18 AM (EST)


The news hit Israel like a bomb, and I do not use this word lightly for a region riddled with bullets that has seen its share of real bombs that kill and maim people.

Israel is appalled and disappointed by the Report published on September 15, 2009 by the...
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9/11: Good War, Bad War, No War

17 Comments | Posted September 11, 2009 | 10:27 AM (EST)


Eight years have passed since the horrific events of September 11, 2001, and the U.S. government is still waiting to pay the $25 million reward it has offered to anyone who provides information leading to Osama bin Laden's capture.

Meanwhile, almost eight years have passed since the U.S. has launched...

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Settlement Freeze: Been There, Done That

25 Comments | Posted August 28, 2009 | 10:23 AM (EST)


UN resolutions, the Oslo Agreement, and negotiations over Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 have all been replaced by buzzwords, such as, "settlement freeze" and "confidence-building measures." Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has skillfully managed to get the international community spinning its wheels over issues that have been...

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How the Grinch Stole Ramadan

24 Comments | Posted August 21, 2009 | 10:20 AM (EST)


The holy month of Ramadan will begin this Saturday in most Muslim countries, a tradition determined by the sighting of the new moon, the exact date of which often divides rival Islamic countries and sects. Muslims celebrate Ramadan by refraining from eating, drinking, sexual conduct, smoking, and indulging in anything...

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Iraq: Talk Is Cheap, Blood Is Cheaper

22 Comments | Posted August 14, 2009 | 10:09 AM (EST)


It was not long ago that the "surge" in Iraq was cause for praise and a measure of success during the U.S. presidential race. Some in the U.S. Congress have even argued that the "surge" is a recipe that could be exported to Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban. The fact...

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Yemen: A Powder Keg Ready to Explode

22 Comments | Posted August 7, 2009 | 10:06 AM (EST)


With the recent obsession about the Iranian "Velvet Revolution," the ongoing coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, news from a country like Yemen seldom makes headlines in Western media, especially in the U.S. In fact, even for reporters savvy in Yemeni politics and fluent...

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