Julie Goodman
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2004
- Affiliation during program:
- Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS
- Country:
- Lebanon
- Year:
- 2004
- Email:
- juliegoodman2002@yahoo.com
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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Journal: Driving in Lebanon
One of my first challenges in Beirut was trying to cross the streets alive.There, lane divisions are just guides, as are red lights and stop signs. People veer the wrong way down ...
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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 ...
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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
One international researcher I met in Lebanon described Hezbollah officials as "control freaks."It wasn't until I tried to schedule an interview with the party that I began to see ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Evolution of Terror IV: Complex Hezbollah a source of fighting, giving
BEIRUT — It has been 15 years since a piece of shrapnel struck Muhammad Haidar's father, plunged through his upper right arm and grazed his chest in a close-range exchange ...
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Journal: The signs of turf
In the United States, it is not unusual to see neighborhoods plastered with campaign signs during election season, each community revealing its candidate of choice.In Lebanon, you ...
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Battling militia groups mire Lebanon’s Shiite population
ZIBDIN, Lebanon — Violence broke out recently between rival Shiite Muslim groups in a small southern town in Lebanon over who had the right to post political signs in the ...
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Evolution of Terror III: Cleric’s disappearance sensitive issue for Shiites
TYRE, Lebanon — Rabab Sadr Charafeddine recalls the hot August day 27 years ago when her brother boarded a plane for Libya. Musa Sadr, a revered cleric in southern Lebanon ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 any ...
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Lebanese watch homeland from afar
CLARKSDALE — Chafik Chamoun can only watch the painful transformation of his country from afar.Five decades ago, Chamoun and his wife, Louise, moved to the United States as ...
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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 fence you'd ...
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