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Dion Nissenbaum covers the Middle East as Jerusalem bureau chief. Dion has covered the conflict in Iraq, working as both an embedded reporter with the U.S. Marines and as a unilateral reporter based in Baghdad.
In 2004, Dion helped cover the landmark Palestinian elections after the death of Yasser Arafat. Before taking his current job, Dion spent more than five years covering California politics for the San Jose Mercury News, where he won awards for his coverage of Arnold Schwarzenegger's historic run for governor.
Read his blog, Checkpoint Jerusalem.
Everyone around the Afghan capital seems to recognize his voice, but almost no one knows his face. In the weeks since Hamid Karzai secured his hold on a second term in the presidency after a dubious election, this anonymous Karzai impersonator has become the newest voice of underground political dissent in Afghanistan. The satire isn't sophisticated. Some might even say his impersonation is crass. » read more
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