Dajani is a frequent guest on several national and international media broadcast networks and has published numerous articles on the Middle East in many print and electronic media outlets. He blogs regularly on The Huffington Post, he co-hosts Arab Talk on KPOO radio, and contributes to the Listening Post on Al Jazeera English.
Dajani is a board member of New America Media, the largest collaboration of ethnic news organizations in the U.S. He is also a San Francisco Human Rights Commissioner, appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Prior to this, he served on the Immigrant Rights Commission (2005-2009) where he was elected chair in 2008. He served for two years (2003-2004) as President of the Arab Cultural & Community Center in San Francisco.
Dajani graduated from Columbia University in New York City with a B.A. degree in Political Science. He is fluent in Arabic and English, and conversant in Hebrew and French.
Awards:
64th Annual Peabody Award- Producer, Mosaic
10th Annual Webby Awards Honoree- Producer, Mosaic
ACCC- Community Service Award- 2005
New California Media -Special Achievement Award- 2003
S.F. Immigrant Rights Commission- Certificate of Honor- 2009
* Jamal was selected as one of the Prominent Arab Americans in Media & Communications in the 2008/2009 Arab American Yearbook.
He has been featured in the following publications & media outlets:
Print:
The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Associated Press, US News & World Report, The Chicago Tribune, The International Herald Tribune, Rolling Stone, Columbia Journalism Review and many other publications.Read Articles
Television:
CNN Live Sunday, CBS- Sunday Morning & Evening News, MSNBC- News & The Nachman Show, KQED- On The Home Front, NBC- Nightly News with Tom Brokaw , ABC -World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, PBS -The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, FOX News with Brit Hume, Your World with Neil Cavuto, Univision, ARD Television-Germany, Al Jazeera English, Abu Dhabi TV-UAE, Jordan TV, NOS Television- The Netherlands, NHK Television- Japan, and most Bay Area television networks. Watch Interviews
Radio:
NPR -Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Talk of the Nation, On The Media, Day to Day, the Morning Edition & the Weekend Edition, Public Radio-Marketplace, KCBS Radio, KALW, KQED, KGO, Chicago Public Radio, WNYC, BBC World, Radio France, Swiss Radio, ABC National Radio Australia, IRIB Iran, Air America, Pacifica, Democracy Now, and others. Listen to Audio
Panels:
Dajani is a frequent speaker on many national & international conferences and panels organized by schools of journalism and renowned organizations such the World's Affairs Council, the Commonwealth Club & the Aspen Institute. Recently he curated an exhibit on Arab media at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York (Paley Center) and was a judge at the Emmy Awards.
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