Jamal Dajani

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Jamal Dajani
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Jamal Dajani is an award winning producer and the Director of Middle Eastern Programming at Link TV. He writes frequently on the Middle East and the media.

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Born and raised in Jerusalem, Dajani completed his early studies at Collège des Frères, and attended Columbia University in New York City where he received a B.A. degree in Political Science. In 2001 Dajani produced the Peabody Award 1 winning Mosaic: World News from the Middle East [1], a half-hour online news program which airs on Link TV. The program collects news clips from various state and private-run Arabic news stations and translates them for western audiences; it currently has more than 1,500 installments. In 2006, Dajani launched The Mosaic Intelligence Report monthly newsletter and MIR weekly videos, adding more in-depth and below the radar Middle East news analysis to Mosaic. Dajani has worked on several television productions, including Occupied Minds, a documentary shedding light on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Who Speaks for Islam? series, both of which aired on Link TV and PBS stations. Recently he was a consultant for PBS Frontline World War of Ideas and author of 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. He is the co-host of Arab Talk on KPOO radio, and serves on the board of New America Media,the largest collaboration of ethnic news organizations in the U.S. Dajani served for two years (2003-2004) as President of the Arab Cultural & Community Center of San Francisco. In 2005, Dajani was appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom to the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission.

Occupied Minds
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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

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