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.

Losing the battle for Arab hearts and minds

For the Arab media, the toppling of Saddams statue in al-Firdaus square in Baghdad on 9 April was no Belgrade. The population of Baghdad, a city of 7 million

By Makram Khoury-Machool

/ 1 May 2003