As a Christian Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, Kuttab brings personal perspectives in addition to professional insights from decades of experience as a human rights attorney. A question and answer session will follow the lecture.
Jonathan Kuttab is Executive Director of Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) and co-founder of Sabeel Jerusalem. Kuttab has also helped found Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, Nonviolence International, and Just Peace Advocates Mouvement pour une Paix Juste, a Canadian based international law human rights nonprofit. A well-known international human rights attorney, Kuttab practices in the US, Palestine, and Israel. He serves on the Board of Bethlehem Bible College and is President of the Board of Holy Land Trust.
Kuttab was the head of the Legal Committee negotiating the Cairo Agreement of 1994 between Israel and the PLO and has authored Beyond the Two-State Solution, suggesting that any solution be predicated on the basic existential needs of the two parties.
As a Christian Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, Kuttab brings personal perspectives in addition to professional insights from decades of experience as a human rights attorney. A question and answer session will follow the lecture.