Paul Taggart - Iraq speaker
Paul Taggart is a photojournalist living in Beirut, Lebanon, covering the Middle East and Africa. Paul worked in Iraq in 2004, not living in the Green Zone or embedded, but renting an apartment in Baghdad. He spent the month of August 2004 in Najaf covering the siege of the Imam Ali shrine, where the Mahdi militia and the coalition forces battled it out for nearly a month. A handful of Western journalists reported alongside the Mahdi from inside the besieged mosque. Paul did one very short two-day embed in Fallujah, the rest of his time was spent working with the Iraqi people. Since working in Iraq he has also done stories on the refugee situation, in particular a story on a group of Kurds that until recently were stuck in between the borders of Iraq and Jordan. Paul’s work has appeared in Newsweek, TIME Magazine, US News and World Report, and The New York Times.