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Jamail: Iraq's "Teflon Don"
Znet Article, February, 17 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Driving through Fallujah, once the most rebellious Sunni city in this country, I saw little evidence of any kind of reconstruction underway.
Jamail: Boys With Toys
Znet Article, February, 16 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
It is not the threat of violence that weighs on the people of Iraq. It is the omnipresent occurrence of violence that has resulted in the desperate nation wide chant, "We are tired. All we want is for normal life to return."
Jamail: No Unemployment Among Iraqi Gravediggers
Znet Article, February, 06 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Amidst the soaring unemployment in Iraq, the gravediggers have been busy. So busy that officials have no record of the number of graves dug; of the real death toll, that is.
Jamail: Iraq Elections Could Be a Telling Signpost
Znet Article, February, 01 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
After strong polling for the provincial elections Saturday, Iraqis are looking out for new signposts of political recovery from the U.S.-led invasion and occupation.
Jamail: Tentative Hope Rises Ahead of Elections
Znet Article, January, 29 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Uncertainty and tension are running high in Baghdad ahead of the provincial election due Jan. 31. But this time fears are also touched by a new hope.
Jamail: The Monstrosity of War
Znet Article, January, 07 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Agence France-Presse reports that the first person killed when the Israeli military began to enter Gaza on Saturday was a Palestinian child...
Jamail: As Usual, the NYT Ignores Iraqi Opinion; Anecdotes trump polls on withdrawal
Znet Article, December, 19 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
The New York Times failed spectacularly in its coverage of Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, helping lead the country into war and only much later publishing a half-hearted mea culpa...
Jamail: Iraq War Vets Transforming Trauma
Znet Article, September, 21 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
By using the written word and art, veterans of the U.S. occupation of Iraq are transforming their trauma into a message of both healing and resistance to the failed U.S. adventure.
Jamail: "We Blew Her to Pieces"
Znet Article, September, 18 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the U.S. military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves. A new book gives readers vivid and detailed accounts of the devastation the U.S. occupation has brought to Iraq, in the soldiers...
Jamail: The Tale Of A Palestinian Journalist
Znet Article, July, 08 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Muhammad Omer and I jointly received the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London on 16 June (1). Omer is a 24-year-old Palestinian with whom I feel honoured to have shared this award, as I told the audience at the prize-giving ceremony. His...
Jamail: He Lacks Privilege
Znet Article, July, 04 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
The torture of Mohammed Omer by Israeli security forces
Jamail: Anthony Arnove talks to Dahr Jamail at Winter Soldier
Video, May, 23 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Reviewing the testimonies...
Al-fadhily: Corruption Eats Into Food Rations
Znet Article, May, 08 2008
Ali Al-fadhily
Al-fadhily's ZSpace page
Iraqis survived the sanctions after the first Gulf War (1990) with the support of rations through the Public Distribution System (PDS). The aid was set up in 1995 as part of the UN's Oil-for-Food programme.
Jamail: Mccain, Obama And Clinton Silent On Iraq Exit
Znet Article, May, 06 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
As soon as it was clear that the presidential primaries would be the news story of the year in the US, Iraq was dropped by the media. The occupation and the campaign for the presidential nominations were de-linked almost from the start. So we don'...
Al-nazzal: Poverty Gets the Survivors
Znet Article, April, 26 2008
Maki Al-nazzal
Al-nazzal's ZSpace page
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates there are 1.5 million Iraqis in Syria. But the economy of Syria itself is struggling under U.S. sanctions...
Jamail: Iraq Has Only Militants, No Civilians
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
From the beginning of the American occupation in Iraq, air strikes and attacks by the U.S. military have only killed "militants," "criminals," "suspected insurgents," "IED [Improvised Explosive Device] emplacers," "anti-American fighters," "terror...
Jamail: Iraq: Five Years, And Counting
Znet Article, March, 18 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Devastation on the ground and largely held Iraqi opinion contradicts claims by U.S. officials that the situation in Iraq has improved towards the fifth anniversary of the invasion Mar. 20.
Jamail: Surviving Somehow Behind a Concrete Purdah
Znet Article, March, 07 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Iraq, where women once had more rights and freedom than most others in the Arab world, has turned deadly for women who dream of education and a professional career.
Jamail: "Reality Is Totally Different"
Znet Article, January, 28 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Accounts of "progress" and the lack thereof in Iraq from some Iraqis themselves.
