Sponsored by the Department of Journalism and Media Studies
Featured speakers:
Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East for more than four years. He has reported extensively from inside Iraq for eight months, and has also has reported from Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. Jamail writes for the Inter Press Service, The Asia Times, 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, Jamail has reported for Democracy Now!, and numerous other stations around the globe. Jamail is also special correspondent for "Flashpoints" (KPFK Radio/Pacifica). He lives in California. Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq is his first book.
Jeremy Scahill is a correspondent for Democracy Now! and a contributor to The Nation magazine. He is currently a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, his first book, received a Polk Award (his second) in 2008. He has also won numerous Project Censored Awards. Scahill has reported extensively from Iraq , Nigeria, and New Orleans. He was among the only western reporters to gain access to the Abu Ghraib prison when Saddam Hussein was in power and his story on the emptying of that prison won a Golden Reel for "Best National Radio News Story" of 2002. Scahill’s work has appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, In These Times, Dollars and Sense, Z Magazine and on a wide array of websites.
6:00PM, Wednesday, April 16
Scott Hall, Room 135
College Avenue Campus of Rutgers UniversityÂ
For more information, contact Professor Deepa Kumar at dkumar@scils.rutgers.edu
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