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The Middle East connected

On Thursdays, I have class with Trudy Rubin, who brings in the most fascinating Middle East journalists to class–whether through Skype, a speakerphone, or actually somehow finding a way to get them here.  Last Thursday, we had Daoud Kuttab, a most unapologetic believer in the Fourth Estate role that media plays, and a Palestinian living in Amman but teaching in Princeton for now.

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Making sense of politics, new media, the state of journalism, and sometimes, the world, by a wide-eyed and fiercely idealistic new media junkie still trying to make sense of life inside the beltway that is Washington, DC.

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