Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq

Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq
by Dahr Jamail

Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq
List Price: $16.00
Our Price: $9.25
You Save: $6.75 (42%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions


(Click here)
Buy this book at online book store in your country
Canada | UK | Germany | France

Book Summary Information

Author: Dahr Jamail
Foreword: Amy Goodman
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN: 1931859612
Number of pages: 330
Publisher: Haymarket Books

Book Reviews of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq

Book Review: Really good journalism
Summary: 5 Stars

"Lying in bed near Rana was Hanna, fourteen years old. She had a gash on her right leg from the bullet of a U.S. soldier. Her family had been traveling in a taxi in Baghdad past a U.S. patrol that very morning, when a soldier opened fire on the car. Her father's shirt was spotted with blood from a head injury from when the taxi crashed." (page 236)

This is Jamail's eye-witness account from an Iraqi hospital and an example of the really good journalism that puts the reader inside the Iraqi experience. Understanding what civilians are subjected to under the occupation helps explain why the resistance against the U.S. is so popular. This book's relentless exposure of war crimes is a scathing contrast to the establishment media. Jamail should be on national network shows to share the truth with America about what we sent our troops into harm's way to do to another people.

Summary of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq

"International journalism at its best."-Stephen Kinzer

"Every conflict spawns a handful of journalists who are willing to not only brave the war zone but to seek out the stories ignored by the press pack. The Iraq War has brought us Dahr Jamail. . . . I suspect Jamail's account will prove an enduring document of what really happened during the chaotic years of occupation, and how it transformed ordinary Iraqis. . . . It tells everything."-Mother Jones

"From the earliest days of the war, Dahr Jamail has been a human conduit for the voices of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. In the face of tremendous personal risk, his commitment to the crucial, principled task of bearing witness has never wavered, and this extraordinary book is the result."-Naomi Klein

Named by AlterNet as one of the top three progressive books of 2007 alongside Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine and Jeremy Scahill's Blackwater, Dahr Jamail's Beyond the Green Zone goes past the polished desks of the corporate media and Washington politicians to tell first hand of the reality of life in Iraq.

Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East for more than four years. Jamail writes for the Inter Press Service and many other outlets and is a regular guest on Democracy Now!. He lives in California.

Amy Goodman is a best-selling author and the host of Democracy Now!.

General Books

Book Subjects
Most talked about in Getting outside the box many want to push and keep you in
Geogaddi ImageBoards of Canada - Geogaddi
Release date: 2002-02-19; Music CD
Best price: $11.09
Price in other shops: $17.98
Prison Break - Season 3 ImagePrison Break - Season 3
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2008-08-12; DVD
Best price: $26.88
Price in other shops: $49.98
Planet Earth - The Complete BBC Series ImagePlanet Earth - The Complete BBC Series
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2007-04-24; DVD
Best price: $25.98
Price in other shops: $79.98
Who Killed the Electric Car? ImageWho Killed the Electric Car?
Sony; Release date: 2006-11-14; DVD
Best price: $7.34
Price in other shops: $14.94
Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism ImageOutfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Release date: 2004-07-13; DVD
Best price: $4.07
Price in other shops: $9.95
Uncovered - The Whole Truth About the Iraq War ImageUncovered - The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
Release date: 2004-03-30; DVD
Best price: $2.99
Price in other shops: $9.95
American Blackout ImageAmerican Blackout
Release date: 2006-10-03; DVD
Best price: $7.17
Price in other shops: $14.95
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media ImageManufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media
Release date: 2002-03-26; DVD
Best price: $16.54
Price in other shops: $29.99
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism ImageBad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang
Bloomsbury Press; Published: 2007-12-26; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.85
Price in other shops: $26.95
Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq ImageBeyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq
by Dahr Jamail
Haymarket Books; Published: 2008-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.67
Price in other shops: $16.00
Similar Books and other products
Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire ImageFreedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire
by John Pilger
Nation Books; Published: 2007-05-14; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.50
Price in other shops: $16.95
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals ImageThe Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
by Jane Mayer
Doubleday; Published: 2008-07-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.45
Price in other shops: $27.50
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict ImageThe Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Linda J. Bilmes
W. W. Norton; Published: 2008-03-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.25
Price in other shops: $22.95
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and StickYou with the Bill) ImageFree Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and StickYou with the Bill)
Penguin Audio; Published: 2007-12-27; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $34.25
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project) ImageNemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project)
by Chalmers Johnson
Holt Paperbacks; Published: 2008-01-22; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.25
Price in other shops: $16.00
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy ImageThe Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt
Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Published: 2007-08-27; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.47
Price in other shops: $26.00
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War ImageWhiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
by Ashley Gilbertson
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 2007-11-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $22.53
Price in other shops: $35.00
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army ImageBlackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill
Nation Books; Published: 2007-03-07; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $24.13
Price in other shops: $26.95
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot ImageThe End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by Naomi Wolf
Chelsea Green Publishing; Published: 2007-09-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.68
Price in other shops: $13.95
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism ImageThe Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
Picador; Published: 2008-06-24; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.63
Price in other shops: $16.00
Book store. Illustrated catalog of books on different categories