Jamie Tarabay

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Jamie Tarabay, 32, is a journalist born in Australia. She has a B.A. in Government and French from the University of Sydney, is fluent in French and Arabic and has spent the past 7 years as a foreign correspondent. 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 Associated Press 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 since 2005 she is the NPR News bureau chief in Baghdad. She is part of the NPR News team that in January 2007 were awarded the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for their coverage of Iraq.

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NAME Tarabay, Jamie
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SHORT DESCRIPTION Australian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH
PLACE OF BIRTH Australia
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