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About Makram Khoury-Machool

Makram Khoury-Machool (born in Jaffa to a Palestinian Christian family) is a researcher specialised in Arab media at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Writing for the Israeli Haaretz Group, he was acclaimed as the first journalist to announce the outburst of the first Palestinian Intifada in 1987. In 1992 he set a media organisation in the Middle East. In 1996 was elected as World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders. In 1999, his Party, The New Arab, contested elections for the Knesset in Israel.

Articles by Makram Khoury-Machool

Thursday 1st May

Losing the battle for Arab hearts and minds

Makram Khoury-Machool, 1 May 2003

No charm offensive by US-UK coalition forces can persuade Arab public opinion that the war in Iraq is just. A study of the Arab media during the period of conflict illustrates how deep is the inner resistance of Arab minds to the seductions of western propaganda.