Award-winning independent reporter and photographer, Dahr Jamail, will be at Sonoma State University on Tuesday, Feb. 12 to discuss new information from behind the frontlines of the Iraq conflict. His presentation will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Schulz Library, room 3001.
A former NY Times foreign desk chief calls Jamail’s reporting, "international journalism at its best." Jamail writes for a wide number of press outlets including Inter Press Service, The Asia Times, The Nation, and Foreign Policy in Focus. He reports for Democracy Now! and the BBC, and is a special correspondent for Flashpoints radio.
Since 2003, Jamail has reported the important stories coming out of Iraq that mainstream outlets won't address. He has described the many ways that private businesses are profiting from the conflict, including Bechtel's failure to restore potable water after being paid hundreds of millions to do so.
At the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq in June 2005, he was asked to present his coverage of U.S. violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention's provisions for health care in occupied countries.
Jamail hosts a website where he publishes his hard-hitting reports about the Mideast. He recently produced a book detailing his experiences in Iraq entitled "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq."
Two of Jamail's articles have been named Project Censored Top 25 stories and in 2007 he was the recipient of the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage. Jamail says "Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before."
This guest lecture is sponsored by Project Censored. Attendance is free for students. A voluntary $5 donation from the general public is appreciated. For more information, contact Professor Peter Phillips at 707-664-2588 or peter.phillips@sonoma.edu.
