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Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University.
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Dahr Jamail
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He spent eight months in Iraq, between 2003 to 2005, and presented his stories on his website, entitled Dahr Jamail"s MidEast Dispatches. Jamail was a reporter for Truthout from 2008-2011 and currently reports for First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera. He has been a frequent guest on Democracy Now!, and is the recipient of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.
Jamail is a fourth generation Lebanese American, and grew up in Houston, Texas.
He graduated from Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University and later moved to Alaska. In October 2007, his first book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, was published by Jamail undertook a national speaking tour that month in New York City, where he and journalist Jeremy Scahill discussed the Afghan and Iraq wars.
Jamail"s second book, The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, was published in Dahr Jamail writes for Truthout about climate change issues.
