East Jerusalem is like a village with a lot of problems,” says Nabil Amad. “We live within the boundaries of a modern state and while next door is very technologically advanced, our area is very underdeveloped, from infrastructure to people.”

Mr Amad, 40, set up Al Quds Network (Al Quds means Jerusalem in Arabic), an internet service provider, on his return to east Jerusalem in 1999 from Oakland University in Michigan, where he studied computer engineering.