Dahr Jamail

Dahr Jamail

Dahr Jamail (born 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 invasion. 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.

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 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 in New York City, where many turned out to hear him and independent journalist Jeremy Scahill discuss the Afghan and Iraq wars.

Jamail's second book, The Will to Resist: Soldiers who refuse to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan was published by Haymarket Books in 2009.

Dahr Jamail is currently a correspondent for Truthout.

Bibliography

• The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. 2009. Haymarket Books.
• 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.

External links

• Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches
• Audio interview on Writer's Voice (2007), with host Francesca Rheannon
• Video: Dahr Jamail - Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (November 2, 2007) from Jamail's 2007 book tour.
• MediaBite January 22, 2008: Scribes of the Empire - An Interview with Dahr Jamail by MediaBite, David Manning and Miriam Cotton

Democracy Now! interviews (video, audio, and print transcript)

• April 28, 2005
• July 14, 2005
• October 15, 2007

The Oil Factor in the Iraq Study Group. Interview with Dori Smith on Talk Nation Radio

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• [5] Talk Nation blog, Dori Smith interviews Dahr Jamail February 17, 2006.
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Dahr Jamail and David Swanson on Talk Nation Radio With Dori Smith Submitted by davidswanson on Sat, 2008-09-13

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Part 2 of 3: Twin Catastrophes: Wars in Vietnam and Iraq, by Dori Smith and David Morse | November 4, 2006 10:11 AM Posted to CT Elections 2006

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