Dahr Jamail

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Dahr Jamail (b. 1968) is an American journalist who is best known as one of the few unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 Iraq War. He spent eight months in Iraq, between 2003 to 2005, and presented his stories on his website, entitled Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches. Jamail writes for the Inter Press Service news agency, among other outlets. He has been a frequent guest on Democracy Now!. Jamail is the recipient of the 2008 The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism^[1] .

1 Biography
2 Bibliography
3 References
4 External links
- 4.1 Listening
- 4.2 Video

[edit] Biography

Jamail is a fourth generation Lebanese American, the son of Gerald Jamail, and grew up in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M University and later moved to Alaska.

In October of 2007, his first book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, was published by Haymarket Books. Jamail began his national speaking tour in October 2007 ^[2] in New York City, where hundreds turned out to hear him and independent journalist Jeremy Scahill discuss the Afghan and Iraq wars.

[edit] Bibliography

Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. 2007. Haymarket Books.
"Iraqi Hospitals Ailing Under Occupation." June 21, 2005. Report for The BRussels Tribunal.
"Bechtel's Dry Run: Iraqis suffer water crisis." April 2004. Report for Public Citizen.
Iraq Dispatches. 2004. Booklet of collected dispatches. NewStandard News.