Articles By: Jamal Dajani

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.

The Grinch who stole Eid

Today, 1.5 billion Muslims across the globe celebrate Eid al-Fiter, a three-day holiday marking the end of Ramadan, however; one renegade pastor of a church, Rev. Terry Jones, with fewer than 50 members has cast a shadow on their festivities. For the past several weeks, the media has treated us to live...

September 20th, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

Direct talks: Five myths

Originally published on the Mosaic Blog Direct talks between Palestinians and Israelis are scheduled to commence in Washington on September 2, a decade after the last real final-status talks, and nearly two years after the last direct talks. Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu will come face to face...

August 30th, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

Obama must bring back that magic to the Middle East

Originally published on LinkTV’s Mosaic Blog Will it be a strike against Iran by the U.S. and or Israel? Will there be political upheaval in Egypt after Mubarak’s reign? And will Israel invade Lebanon or Gaza? These are some of the questions that can be heard on the streets of Cairo, Amman,...

August 11th, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

Why Turkey is looking east

Originally posted on LinkTV First came the clash at Davos in January 2009, when Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan walked off the stage after an angry exchange with the Israeli president, Shimon Peres during a panel discussion on Gaza at the World Economic Forum. Then came the surprise...

June 14th, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

Israel: Hasbara, lies, and videotape

Originally published on Mosaic Intelligence Report As thousands of outraged demonstrators poured into the streets of Ankara and several capitals across the globe in the aftermath of Israel’s bloody attack on an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip early Monday, an Israeli sergeant stood in...

June 7th, 2010 | Middle East | Read More

The War on Islam is over, but…

Originally posted on LinkTV In a clear break from former president George Bush’s two national security strategies issued in 2002 and 2006 which endorsed unilateral military action and spoke of the threat posed by “Islamic extremism,” President Obama has unveiled a new national security...

June 1st, 2010 | Featured | Read More