Birth: 1/1/1952 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Amman in 1952 to a Christian family; brother of Daoud Kuttab; grew up in Jerusalem and Bethlehem; received a BA in History from Messiah College, US, in 1973 and a Jur.D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 1977; became a member of the New York Bar Association in 1978, and worked at a Wall Street law firm until 1980, when he returned to Palestine; opened a private practice in Jerusalem and worked as a lawyer and human rights advocate; founder and co-director of Al-Haq in Ramallah in 1979; became a member of the Arab Lawyers’ Union (Palestinian Bar Association) in 1982, and of the Israel Bar Association in 1983; taught Business Law at Bethlehem University in 1983; co-founded the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence in 1985; was awarded the Rabbi Elmer Berger Award in 1986; co-founder and Board member of the Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems (HURIDOCS), Switzerland, since 1988; Chairman of the Board of the Bethlehem Bible College and of the Board of Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem; co-founder of the Mandela Institute for Political Prisoners, Ramallah, since 1989; involved with Nonviolence International since 1990; drafted the Palestinian Environmental Law (submitted to the Environmental Law Institute, Washington, DC) and the PA in 1994; has taught at Al-Quds University Law School in 1998 and assisted in the organization of its MA Law program; has worked as legal advisor to a number of organizations, incl. the YMCA and YWCA in Jerusalem and the Qalandia Health Center; serves as Board member of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center and the Palestinian National Theater (Al-Hakawati); stood in the Jan. 1996 PLC elections as an independent candidate in Jerusalem but was not elected; has widely published on legal and human rights issues, incl. Analysis of Military Order No. 854 and Related Orders Concerning Educational Institutions in the Occupied West Bank (Al-Haq, 1981).
