“Today Is Better than Tomorrow”10 Dec 2006Tomgram: Jamail, Emails from the Front Lines of Iraqi Daily Life Right now, we have on the table a “possible exit strategy” from Iraq—James A. Baker’s Iraq Study Group report—that, once you do the figures, doesn’t…
“DahrJamailIraq now video podcasting Mosaic”28 Aug 2006Mosaic now available as iTunes vodcast (video podcast) at DahrJamailIraq – Get Mosaic daily into itunes and your video ipod! Dahr Jamail Iraq is proud to announce a video podcast (vodcast) of LinkTV’s Mosaic. Now you can receive daily English…
“The World Just Sat By,” An Interview with Dahr Jamail23 Aug 2006By: Christopher Brown August 23, 2006 Dahr Jamail is an award-winning, independent journalist who reported live from Baghdad for eight months beginning in 2003. He is considered one of the best sources on the War in Iraq. Recently, he returned…
Thanks for your Contributions14 Aug 2006We would like to thank everyone who contributed funding towards Dahr Jamail’s recent trip to the Middle East. The following are just a few of the highlights of Dahr’s reporting which your generous donations made possible. We hope that everyone…
Destruction, Death, and Drastic Measures8 Aug 2006The Damage in Lebanon—and Beyond The idea that you can solve social and political problems militarily from the air is, on the face of it, ludicrous. The historical record is filled with the dead dreams of air power…
Black Beaches in Lebanon4 Aug 2006July 29, 2006 Towards the beginning of the war, Israeli air strikes target five of the six oil storage tanks at the electrical plant in El-Jiye city. El-Jiya is a small coastal city roughly 20 miles south of Beirut. The…
Images from Lebanon4 Aug 2006I have taken many photographs of different aspects of the conflict in Lebanon. To view: Israeli Air Strikes Targeting Lebanese Red Cross Click here To view: Scenes from Shelter in Qana where on July 30, Israeli air strikes killed over…
“You reach a place where you look at life like it’s nothing.”1 Aug 2006Mother Jones Website News: Daily Dispatches from the War-Torn Lebanese Capital By Dahr Jamail Tuesday, August 1, 2006 Walking into the scene of the massacre yesterday in Qana felt like entering a bottomless pit of despair. A black whole of…
Chest-Beating—While Losing the War28 Jul 2006Mother Jones Website News: Daily Dispatches from the War-Torn Lebanese Capital By Dahr Jamail Friday, July 28, 2006 I’d been wondering why there have been fewer war planes buzzing over Beirut the last several days. Even Dahaya, the utterly devastated…
“War is the total failure of the human spirit.”26 Jul 2006Mother Jones Website News: Daily Dispatches from the War-Torn Lebanese Capital By Dahr Jamail Thursday, July 27, 2006 Ah, the joys of reporting on a shoe-string budget! I’ve been working the last few days with a freelance photographer from Holland,...
“Aren’t people seeing all of this?”23 Jul 2006Hundreds of Lebanese refugees languish in a city park in downtown Beirut. Fleeing southern Lebanon, as well as south Beirut, thousands have already made their way through this camp as they are farmed out to schools, abandoned buildings and anyone…
War21 Jul 2006War savages everything. As Lebanon bleeds and the humanitarian crisis there deepens among the craters left by Israeli bombs, those who can have fled-mostly to Syria….
Collectively Punishing Lebanon19 Jul 2006An acquaintance of mine in Lebanon just sent me this email: “A friend of mine just called and told me of a massacre: civilian building destroyed in Tyre by Israeli aggression. There, Zouhair Edde’s mother has been killed. Rayaan Qudsi…
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