Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist from Anchorage, Alaska. He has spent 8 months reporting from occupied Iraq, and has been covering the Middle East for several years. He regularly reports for
Inter Press Service as well as contributing to
The Nation, the
Sunday Herald and
Asia Times among others. His articles have been published in the website of the
Nation magazine, Tom Engelhardt, at
Tomdispatch.com, and the
New Standard internet news site for which he was the Iraq correspondent. He is the special correspondent in Iraq for Flashpoints radio and also has appeared on the BBC, Democracy Now!, Free Speech Radio News, and Radio 786, South Africa.