Skip to content
TomDispatch.com

A regular antidote to the mainstream media

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Reddit
  • RSS Feed
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Reddit
  • RSS Feed
  • Home
  • Archive
  • Authors
  • Books
  • About
  • Contact
  • Donate

Dahr Jamail

Dahr Jamail is a feature story staff writer and producer for Al Jazeera English. Currently based in Doha, Qatar, Dahr has spent more than a year in Iraq, spread over a number of trips between 2003 and 2013. His reportage from Iraq, including for TomDispatch, has won him several awards, including the Martha Gellhorn Award for Investigative Journalism. He is the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.

Savoring What Remains

Taking in a Climate-Changed World

By Dahr Jamail On December 8, 2019On December 8, 2019

A Planet in Crisis

The Heat’s On Us

By Dahr Jamail On January 15, 2019On January 16, 2019

War in the Gulf (No, Not That Gulf!)

The U.S. Navy’s Anti-Environmental Broadside in the Gulf of Alaska

By Dahr Jamail On April 9, 2017On May 15, 2021

Destroying What Remains

How the U.S. Navy Plans to War Game the Arctic

By Dahr Jamail On May 21, 2015On May 21, 2015

A Nation on the Brink 

How America’s Policies Sealed Iraq’s Fate 

By Dahr Jamail On July 17, 2014On May 15, 2021

Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice?

Scientists Consider Extinction

By Dahr Jamail On December 17, 2013On May 15, 2021

Living with No Future 

Iraq, 10 Years Later

By Dahr Jamail On March 26, 2013On April 3, 2013

Jamail and Lazare, Who Will Be Sent to Afghanistan?

By Dahr Jamail On November 8, 2009On May 15, 2021

Dahr Jamail, A Secret History of Dissent in the All-Volunteer Military

By Dahr Jamail On June 30, 2009On February 8, 2011

Dahr Jamail, Iraq from the Inside of an Armored BMW

By Dahr Jamail On February 12, 2009On February 17, 2021

Dahr Jamail, Missing Voices in the Iraq Debate

By Dahr Jamail On January 27, 2008On March 25, 2011

Tomdispatch: Dahr Jamail, How to Control the Story, Pentagon-style

By Dahr Jamail On November 26, 2007On January 1, 2012

Dahr Jamail, Iraq Reporter Schizophrenic in Disneyland

By Dahr Jamail On July 12, 2007On January 15, 2012

Newsletter

Resist Empire

Support TomDispatch
Donate

Recent Articles

  • A Highway to Peace or a Highway to Hell? March 21, 2023
  • On Missing Dr. Strangelove March 19, 2023
  • Don’t Try to Find a Home in Washington, D.C. March 16, 2023
  • Is a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Imminent? March 14, 2023
  • Empty Tables March 12, 2023

Recent Books

  • Splinterlands

    Julian West, looking backwards from 2050, tries to understand why the world and his family have fallen apart. Part Field Notes from a Catastrophe, part 1984, part World War Z, John Feffer’s striking new dystopian novel, takes us deep into the battered, shattered world of 2050. The European Union has broken apart. Multiethnic great powers like Russia and… Read more

  • Frostlands

    It’s 2051, and Arcadia is under attack. As the stand-alone sequel to Splinterlands begins, the sustainable compound in what was once Vermont is on high alert. Arcadia’s defense corps is mobilized to defend against what first appears to be a routine assault, one of the many that the community must repulse from para- military forces… Read more

  • A Nation Unmade by War

    A Nation Unmade by War surveys American exceptionalism in the age of absurdity. As Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better-funded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade and a half of constant war across the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa, the United… Read more

  • In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power

    In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power—from the 1890s through the Cold War—and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony—covert… Read more

  • Every Body Has a Story

    As the Great Recession and the foreclosure crisis hit, four close friends who barely made it out of poverty in New York City’s South Bronx, suddenly find themselves caught up in the economic maelstrom. Lena, Zack, Dory, and Stu must reconcile their troubled past with an uncertain future in Beverly Gologorsky’s stunning new novel, a… Read more

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Authors
  • Books
  • About
  • Contact
  • Donate
© 2023 TomDispatch.com
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Reddit
  • RSS Feed