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By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on July 13th, 2010

Hollman Morris is a Colombian journalist who has received dozens of international awards for his work uncovering atrocities and human rights abuses in the decade’s-long armed conflict in his country.

But the United States apparently views him as a terrorist. (More on this terrorist thing later).

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Photo: Colombian journalist Hollman Morris.

By Clayton Swisher in Americas, Middle East on April 25th, 2010
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From my Doha perch it's easy to avoid the whole "dual loyalty" debate currently raging in Washington.  That does not mean that as a reporter I have shied away from raising it where appropriate. 
 
But in case anyone missed it, there has been a growing argument in recent weeks among Washington policy wonks over this very issue, with scathing editorial salvos fired between the formidable Harvard Professor Stephen Walt and the pro-Israel Washington Institute's equally outspoken Robert Satloff. 
 
By Clayton Swisher in Middle East on February 12th, 2010

Harvard University's well-known law school, or HLS, was the intellectual training ground for US President Barack Obama (HLS 91'), who through his high marks became editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Obama might find it interesting to know the miles some HLS students have to travel to become expert in their field - only to be turned back.

Consider the case of 3rd year law student Hebah Ismail, who is putting the finishing touches on her studies with Harvard's International Human Rights Clinic.

By Teymoor Nabili in Americas on November 21st, 2009
Photo from AFP

Hamid Karzai has promised that government officials in Afghanistan will henceforth be compelled to declare and register their assets, a strategy apparently insisted upon by Hillary Clinton.

But in a world where even top UN officials are able to profit to the tune of tens of millions of dollars through activities that many are calling a conflict of interest, Harvard Professor Stephen Walt ponders whether the principle of transparency shouldn't be more broadly applied, including in western nations.

By Josh Rushing in Americas on November 1st, 2009

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, better known as the DEA, identified three agents who were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan this week. One of the agents, Mike Weston, was a friend of mine.

In fact, in a series I filmed for Al Jazeera about war last year, Mike was profiled in the first episode, in which I tracked down six former classmates of mine from U.S. Marine officer training in Quantico, Virginia. We were the first class to graduate into the new millennium and had no idea that with 9/11 a year away, our worlds would soon be turned upside down. I wanted to see how so many years of war had affected their lives.

Mike's in part two (below), you can find part one here.

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