Jamal Dajani

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name = Jamal Dajani


caption = Mosaic Intelligence Report- Studio|

"Jamal Dajani" ( _ar. جمال الدجاني) is an award winning producer and the Senior Director of Middle Eastern Programming at "Link TV." He writes frequently on the Middle East and the media.

Biography

Since 2001, Dajani has produced more than 1,700 installments of "", winning the Peabody Award [http://128.192.29.189/news/pressrelease.asp?ID=119] in 2004. Two years later, Dajani launched the [http://www.linktv.org/mosaic/mir "Mosaic Intelligence Report"] ,a weekly video analysis broadcast on Link TV and distributed over the web. He has also worked as producer and in an editorial capacity on several television productions, including [http://www.wrmea.com/archives/Sept_Oct_2005/0509048.html "Occupied Minds"] ,a documentary shedding light on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, [http://www.linktv.org/programs/who_islam "Who Speaks for Islam?] ,"and PBS Frontline World [http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/newswar/video1.html "War of Ideas"] as a consultant and author of [http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/newswar/war_arabmedia.html "The Arab Media Revolution"] .

Dajani is a frequent guest on numerous national and international media broadcast networks and a contributor to the "Listening Post" on Al Jazeera English. He has published many articles on the Middle East in many print and electronic media outlets and blogs regularly on The Huffington Post. He is the co-host of "Arab Talk" on [http://www.kpoo.com KPOO] radio, and serves on the board of [http://newamericamedia.org New America Media] ,the largest collaboration of ethnic news organizations in the U.S.

Dajani served for two years (2003-2004) as president of [http://www.arabculturalcenter.org the Arab Cultural & Community Center of San Francisco] . In 2005, Dajani was appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom to the [http://www.sfgov.org/site/immigrant_index.asp?id=6193 San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission] where he currently serves as chair.

Born in Jerusalem to a prominent Palestinian family, [http://www.dajani.net/1.html Dajani] completed his early studies at [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A8res_des_%C3%89coles_chr%C3%A9tiennes Collège des Frères,] and attended Columbia University in New York City where he received a B.A. degree in Political Science.

Awards

64th Annual Peabody Award- Producer, Mosaic

10th Annual Webby Awards Honoree- Producer, Mosaic

ACCC- Community Service Award- 2005

[http://expo.ncmonline.com/news/view_custom.html?custom_page_id=90 New California Media] -Special Achievement Award- 2003

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name = Occupied Minds


caption = Eretz Crossing, Gaza 2005|

Occupied Minds

OCCUPIED MINDS takes viewers on an emotional, intensely personal odyssey through one of the world's most volatile regions. The film follows Palestinian-American journalist Jamal Dajani and Israeli journalist David Michaelis as they travel together to Jerusalem, their mutual birthplace. Together they hope to offer unique insights into the divisive Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The two journalists meet with a variety of people, including a Palestinian gunman who is on Israel’s most-wanted list; an Israeli soldier who discusses his military service; an Israeli surgeon who lost his eyesight in a Palestinian suicide bombing; a Palestinian farmer whose pasture was divided by one of the walls being built around Israeli enclaves and an Israeli mother who lost her son in the conflict. As Dajani and Michaelis make their way through contemporary Israel and Palestine, they struggle to find lasting solutions to what many believe to be a never-ending conflict.

"Brilliant...This must-see film is, in the words of Dajani, 'a narrative not heard in the mass media,' and, added Michaelis, 'the story you haven’t heard before.'" -Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

[http://www.linktv.org/programs/occupied View Film]

External links

* [http://www.jamaldajani.com Jamal Dajani Home Page]
* [http://www.jamaldajani.com/images/NYT_1_13_08_mail.pdf The New York Times]
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani The Huffington Post]
* [http://www.linktv.org/mosaic/mir The Mosaic Intelligence Report]
* [http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2005/08/occupied_mindsint.html Behind the Lens]
* [http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/03/10/meaw_pm1_dajani_commentary/ Marketplace]
* [http://imeu.net/news/article001534.shtml Profile on Jamal Dajani at the Institute for Middle East Understanding]
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2006/7/18/a_sampling_of_arab_tv_coverage Democracy Now!]
* [http://www.timeout.com/newyork/article/4999/60-minarets 60 Minarets]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxIbCFo4a6s Al Jazeera English]
* [http://www.linktv.org/sitecontent/press/sf_mag6.03.pdf Good News from the Middle East]
* [http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2005/08/occupied_minds.html PBS Frontline World]
* [http://www.linktv.org/sitecontent/press/chicagotrib_2_1_04.pdf East is East & West is West]
* [http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12312 ZNet Magazine]
* [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/10/13/MN243561.DTL The War Debate]