Dahr Jamail (born 1968) is an American journalist who was one of the few unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He spent eight months in Iraq, between 2003 and 2005, and presented his stories on his website, entitled "Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches." Jamail has been a reporter for ''

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'' and has also written for

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. He has been a frequent guest on ''

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'', and is the recipient of the 2008

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. In 2018, the ''Izzy Award'' of the Park Center for Independent Media was awarded to Jamail, and shared by investigative reporters

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, Sharon Lerner, and author Todd Miller.

Biography

Jamail is a fourth-generation

Lebanese American Lebanese Americans () are Americans of Lebanese descent. This includes both those who are native to the United States of America, as well as immigrants from Lebanon and Latin America. Lebanese Americans comprise 0.79% of the American populatio ...

, who was born and raised in

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. He graduated from

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, TA&M, or TAMU) is a public university, public, Land-grant university, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of ...

and later moved to

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. In October 2007, his first book, ''Beyond the Green Zone,'' was published by

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. Jamail embarked on a national speaking tour the same month that the book was released, first in

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, where he and journalist

Jeremy Scahill Jeremy Scahill (born 1974) is an American activist, author, and investigative journalist. He is a founding editor of the online news publication ''The Intercept'' and author of '' Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army' ...

discussed the

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and

Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...

wars. In 2007, he was awarded the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage. Jamail's second book, ''The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan,'' was published in 2009. His next book, ''The Mass Destruction of Iraq; The Disintegration of a Nation: Why It Is Happening, and Who Is Responsible,'' was co-authored in 2014 with William Rivers Pitt. Dahr Jamail has written for ''Truthout'' about climate change issues since the early 2000s. In January 2019, he published the book, ''The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption,'' about his mountaineering adventures where he witnessed glaciers melting, and grieving multiple aspects of climate change and catastrophe around the world. In 2022, with Stan Rushworth, he edited ''We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices From Turtle Island On the Changing Earth'', a collection of interviews and conversations with indigenous people about climate change.

Works

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References

External links

Official site
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