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Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East for more than four years, and is the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. He also has reported from Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. He writes for Inter Press Service, Le Monde Diplomatique and many other outlets. His reports have been published in the Nation, The Sunday Herald, The Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, and The Independent, among other publications. On radio as well as television, he has reported for Democracy Now!, and numerous other stations around the globe. Jamail is also special correspondent for “Flashpoints” (KPFK Radio/Pacifica).