PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College’s 2016 writer-in-residence is a reporter with international experience.
Dahr Jamail will be the featured guest, giving speeches for the public and presiding over student forums and writing workshops Tuesday, April 26, through Thursday, April 28.
In late 2003, weary of what he viewed as the overall failure of the U.S. media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people, Jamail went to the Middle East to report on the war himself.
He spent more than a year in Iraq as one of only a few independent U.S. journalists in the country.
Jamail also has reported from Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.
He has reported on veterans’ resistance against U.S. foreign policy and now writes on anthropogenic climate disruption and the environment.
Public lectures
He will present public lectures about his research on climate change at 6:30 p.m. April 26 in Port Angeles and at 6 p.m. April 28 in Port Townsend.
“Human-Caused Climate Disruption: The Earth at Risk” will be in Maier Hall on the Port Angeles college campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
In Port Townsend, he will speak on “Evolution on a Dying Planet: On Grieving on Resistance” at Fort Warden Chapel.
Both are free and open to the public.
Another free public address will be at 12:30 p.m. April 28 during the Studium Generale program, “Living on a Climate Disrupted Planet,” at the Little Theater on the Port Angeles campus.
Other activities will be for only students and staff members.
A student forum, “Journalism vs. Propaganda,” is set from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. April 26 in Room J-47.
Another student forum, “Are We Already Off the Precipice?: The Progression of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption,” is planned from 9:10 a.m. to 10:10 a.m. April 27 in Room J-47.
Writing forum
Also planned that day in Room J-47 is a student science writing forum.
It will be from 1:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and a writing workshop with selected students and community members from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
A student forum on global issues is scheduled from 10:20 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. April 28 in Room J-47.
Jamail has published two books, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq and The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
His stories have been published by Truthout, Inter Press Service, TomDispatch, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, The Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Huffington Post, The Nation and The Independent.
His writing has been translated into many languages. Jamail has reported for Democracy Now! and Al-Jazeera, and has appeared on the BBC, NPR and other stations.
Jamail has won the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism, The Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage and five Project Censored awards.
