Fellows & Editors
Julie Goodman
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2004
- Affiliation:
- Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS
- Country:
- Lebanon
- Year:
- 2004
Julie Goodman covers mutual funds and regulatory developments for BoardIQ, a Web site in New York owned by the Financial Times. She came to the site from Washington, D.C., where she focused on foreign policy in South Asia and the Middle East as a 2007/08 congressional fellow with the American Political Science Association. Previously, she was a reporter for The (Jackson, MS) Clarion-Ledger. She began at the paper in 2002, covering the Mississippi Statehouse for two and a half years. As a general-assignment, then business, reporter at the Ledger, she also covered Hurricane Katrina recovery, growth and development, and tribal issues. For the International Reporting Project, she traveled to Lebanon to cover Hezbollah and other political developments. She came to Mississippi after spending 15 months in Harare, Zimbabwe, writing for one of the country's independent newspapers, The Standard, and freelancing for U.S. publications, the Red Cross and other nongovernmental organizations. Before going overseas, she worked at The Associated Press in Providence for one year covering statewide issues and at The Providence Journal for two years covering suburban Providence. She is a graduate of Northwestern University.
Stories
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Photo Essay IV: Evolution of terror
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Photo Essay III: Evolution of terror
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Photo Essay II: Evolution of terror
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Photo Essay I: Evolution of terror
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Journal: Hezbollah and media access
A sign identifies the highly organized and bureaucratic Hezbollah media office. One international researcher I met in Lebanon described Hezbollah officials as "control freaks."It wasn't until I tried to schedule an...
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What is Hezbollah?
Hezbollah, Lebanon's militant Shiite group, officially came into existence in the early 1980s, when Beirut was engulfed in civil war.Its aim was to fight the invasion of Israel, which had begun...
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Changing Hezbollah faces real dilemma
Hezbollah's most vexing dilemma is whether to cling to its successful message of resistance or focus more heavily on the sometimes banal issues of daily life, like food rations and sewage backup...
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Field hospital mushrooms into thriving medical network
BEIRUT — It began in 1984 with a small group of doctors, nurses and paramedics who banded together to establish a field hospital for the wounded as Beirut's southern suburbs were besieged by...
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Evolution of Terror IV: Complex Hezbollah a source of fighting, giving
Muhammad Haidar displays some belongings of his father, a "martyr" who died fighting Israel. Haidar, 16, refused to wipe off the blood that dried on his father's watch. BEIRUT — It has been 15...
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Journal: The signs of turf
A painting on a wall in a southern suburb of Beirut shows a gun bursting through a Star of David with the words, "We're coming," emblazoned across a banner in Hezbollah colors. ...
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Battling militia groups mire Lebanon’s Shiite population
Zeinab Safa, 70, says a war among Shiites is "scary." ZIBDIN, Lebanon — Violence broke out recently between rival Shiite Muslim groups in a small southern town in Lebanon over who had the...
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Evolution of Terror III: Cleric’s disappearance sensitive issue for Shiites
Rabab Sadr Charafeddine talks about her brother's disappearance. Imam Musa Sadr left for Libya in 1978 and was never seen again. TYRE, Lebanon — Rabab Sadr Charafeddine recalls the hot August day 27 years...
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Journal: Driving in Lebanon
Being a pedestrian can sometimes be a challenge on the streets of Beirut. One of my first challenges in Beirut was trying to cross the streets alive.There, lane divisions are just...
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Shiite win could raise tensions
Iraq's Shiite population is expected to claim victory in the country's national elections Sunday — giving the oppressed people a long-awaited political voice.It is a feat that some Middle Eastern experts...
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Evolution of Terror ll: Lebanese watch hoLebanese split over U.S.
YAMMOUNEH, Lebanon — Here, in this small Shiite town tucked high into the mountains, a farmer's hands are rendered rough and calloused by trade. Sweet golden apples are the main crop.But,...
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Timeline of events in Lebanese history
1943: Lebanon gains independence. 1975: Civil war breaks out between Christians and Muslims. 1982: Israel launches full-scale invasion in southern Lebanon; buffer zone created against Hezbollah attacks. 1982: Multinational force, including U.S. Marines, deploys to...
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Journal: A city transformed
BEIRUT — One of my stops in Lebanon was a nondescript intersection in Beirut, typical of the kind you might see at the center of any city. But this intersection was not...
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Lebanese watch homeland from afar
Chafik and Louise Chamoun came to the United States in1954. A few years later they opened a grocery store which evolved into the now-thriving Rest Haven Restaurant. CLARKSDALE — Chafik Chamoun can...
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Evolution of Terror I: Pride, peace pit sides
Two months ago, I stood facing a towering fence propped up by sturdy poles, covered in what looked like a menacing cluster of cables and barbed wire.It was the kind of...
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