Jamie Tarabay Tarabay, Jamie. A Crazy Occupation: Eyewitness to the Intifada. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2005. Page 215. is a journalist born in

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. She is based in New York City. Tarabay has a B.A. in Government and French from the

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, is fluent in French and Arabic and has worked as a

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. She lived in Beirut for three years as a child and has spent much time as a journalist covering and living in the Middle East. In 2000 she was sent to Jerusalem by

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and in 2005 she released a book about her experiences in the Middle East during 2000 to 2004: '' A Crazy Occupation: Eyewitness to the Intifada''. She has covered Iraq since the formal end of hostilities in 2003 and from 2005 to 2007 she was the

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News bureau chief in

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. She was part of the NPR News team that in January 2007 were awarded the

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for their coverage of

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. As of early 2014 she was a Senior Staff Writer at Al Jazeera America.

Bibliography

* '' A Crazy Occupation: Eyewitness to the Intifada''

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