In 1980, Kuttab began his career at
Al-Fajr, an English-language weekly newspaper. Over the next seven years, he was promoted to features editor and then managing editor. In 1987, he left
Al-Fajr for
Al-Quds, an Arabic-language daily newspaper based in
East Jerusalem. In March 2022, Kuttab was briefly detained by Jordanian authorities following a complaint regarding an article he had published in 2019 about the detention of an investor. ==Awards==