Dahr Jamail

Dahr Jamail is an independent U.S. journalist who has been reporting from the Middle East for over five years, nine months of which he was spent in Iraq. Dahr currently writes for several independent outlets. His reporting has earned him numerous awards, including the prestigious 2008 Martha Gelhorn, the Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, and four Project Censored awards. He is the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Independent Journalist in Occupied Iraq, and Military Resisters: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.