Jamie Tarabay

Jamie Tarabay is an Australian-born journalist based in New York City. She has a B.A. in Government and French from the University of Sydney and is fluent in French and Arabic. Tarabay has worked as a foreign correspondent, spending much of her time covering and living in the Middle East. In 2000, she was sent to Jerusalem by Associated Press. She released a book in 2005 titled 'A Crazy Occupation: Eyewitness to the Intifada', documenting her experiences in the Middle East from 2000 to 2004. Tarabay has extensively covered Iraq since the end of hostilities in 2003. From 2005 to 2007, she served as the NPR News bureau chief in Baghdad. She was part of the NPR News team that received the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in January 2007 for their coverage of Iraq. As of early 2014, Tarabay was a Senior Staff Writer at Al Jazeera America.