Welcome Home, President Bush

Posted on January 21, 2008. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

Hamdillah salameh, President Bush. I bet you’re glad to be back. It seems the trip didn’t turn out quite like you’d planned. Not only is Israel riding roughshod over Palestinians in Gaza undermining your peace plan, but just a day or two after you were in Kuwait, the country’s foreign minister told the foreign minister [...]

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What Went Wrong (and Right) with the Cluster Bomb Diaries?

Posted on January 18, 2008. Filed under: independent journalism | Tags: , , , |

The first project I started as an international, independent journalist was what I hoped would be an insightful, exceptionally produced piece (or series of pieces) that spliced together audio of interviews with cluster bomb victims in southern Lebanon. G, a photographer I met on my third day in Lebanon (about two weeks after the war [...]

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International Journalists Network

Posted on January 16, 2008. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

AUB’s Journalism Training Program director Magda Abu-Fadil sent a link to the International Journalists’ Network website, which offers a range of resources in Arabic, English, Farsi, Portuguese, Spanish and a weekly e-mail bulletin in one of these five languages. IJN has also recently inaugurated a column about online journalism called Webb on the Web that [...]

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Talking about Independent Journalism in Northern Lebanon

Posted on January 14, 2008. Filed under: independent journalism | Tags: , , , |

Driving up to Nahr el Bared last Friday with my friend Tariq and another journalist I’d just met, we had a very different kind of conversation from the ones I remembered having after the summer 2006 war in Lebanon. Instead of exchanging information about the places we were about to land—Beddawi and Nahr el Bared, [...]

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