On March 5, 2020, Azm University will be hosting a talk by award winning journalist David Enders, the talk will take place at the Music Room.
"Tales of a War Journalist": a journalist who has worked for nearly 20 years in the Middle East, talks about how and why he decided to become a journalist and what he's learned about journalism during his career.
To know more about him, check out his website:
David Enders:
www.davidjenders.com
Read about him:
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24747865.html
Watch some of his work:
https://www.davidjenders.com/vice/2017/2/9/rearming-iraq-the-new-arms-race-in-the-middle-east-2
Excerpts from his CV:
Books
▪ Baghdad Bulletin. University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor, MI. 2005.
▪ Contributed chapter on Iraq to Hearts and Minds: A People's History of Counterinsurgency. New Press. New York, NY. 2013.
Awards / Grants
▪ George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting (Syria, 2012)
▪ $30,000 in grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting (Iraq and Syria, 2007-2011)
▪ $10,000 in grants from Donors Choose for classroom projects (2007-2010)
Producer: Al Jazeera America
Washington, D.C.
▪ Produced Fault Lines, a Peabody and Emmy award-winning investigative documentary program;
▪ Episodes included — in the United States — the school-to-prison pipeline in minority and underprivileged communities; in Iraq — Kurdish attempts to push back Islamic State; and in Libya — reported on the takeover by militias of the country’s oil infrastructure.
Bureau Chief: McClatchy Newspaper Company
Beirut, Lebanon
▪ Broke stories about US-backed rebel groups sharing weapons with jihadist factions and the pivotal role played by Jabhat al-Nusra (Al-Qaeda) and ISIS in early rebel territorial gains;
▪ Reported extensively across rebel-held northern Syria, government-held Damascus, and Kurdish-held northeastern Syria;
▪ In Libya, covered the fall of Tripoli as well as ensuing ethnic cleansing against black Libyans during the revolt against Muammar Gaddafi.
Freelance Reporter and Producer
US and Middle East
▪ Reported on the sprawling and arbitrary nature of the US prison system in Iraq, notably on Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca, for Al Jazeera English’s People and Power;