Jillian York

Jillian York

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Jillian C. York is a writer and blogger whose work has been featured at Global Voices Online, Voices without Votes, Arabisto.com, IntheFray Magazine, and The Casablanca Analyst, Morocco's only English-language newspaper. She began her young writing career after moving to Morocco to teach English in 2005 and publishing her first book, Culture Smart! Morocco: A Guide To Customs and Culture (Random House, 2006), shortly thereafter.

Jillian has since moved back to the U.S., but continues to write and blog about Morocco, as well as her other interests, including politics, globalization, and women's issues.

Blog Entries by Jillian York

Mideast Bloggers React To Obama Adviser's Resignation

Posted August 8, 2008 | 11:43 AM (EST)


Mazen Asbahi, the attorney who had volunteered as Barack Obama's outreach coordinator to Muslim and Arab-Americans, has resigned after accusations of ties to Jamal Said, an imam at a fundamentalist mosque in Illinois. Asbahi briefly sat on the board of Allied Assets Advisors Fund with Said...

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The Iranian-Jewish-American Constituency Weighs In

5 Comments | Posted July 26, 2008 | 01:16 PM (EST)


Immigrant communities in the US, whether able to vote or not, have so far played a public role in this year's elections. Many, fed up with US foreign policy, are looking to the incoming president, whomever it may be, for change. One such community is the large Iranian-American Jewish community,...

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Palestinian Bloggers Rail In The Wake Of Obama Visit

5 Comments | Posted July 24, 2008 | 06:43 PM (EST)


As U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama wrapped up a tour of Israel and Palestine, newspaper headlines all over the world were fixated on the Senator's attention to Israel and the lack of attention he paid to Palestine's struggle.

One headline in particular, from Israel's Haaretz, aptly summed up...

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Palestine Bloggers On The Obama Tour And The New Yorker

Posted July 22, 2008 | 11:58 AM (EST)


Barack Obama is making headlines this week in the Palestinian blogosphere: partly for his visit to the West Bank and partly for his turn on the cover of this week's New Yorker.

Of the former, Gaza Strip: The Untold Story says:

Finally, we Palestinians and Arab Americans...
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Al Jazeera In Vermont

Posted July 7, 2008 | 05:30 PM (EST)


When Al Jazeera announced its plans to release English-language channel in 2005, the announcement was met with both support and protest in the United States. And so, although the U.S. government doesn't prevent access to the channel, many cable companies, in deciding among the many competitive channels to provide...

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The View From Abroad: Michelle Obama , No Baby Mama

Posted June 17, 2008 | 01:35 PM (EST)


On Wednesday, June 11, Fox News aired a segment in which anchor Megyn Kelly and conservative blogger Michelle Malkin discussed conservative attacks on Michelle Obama, Senator and Presidential hopeful Barack Obama's wife. While the segment aired, a caption appeared along the bottom of the screen reading: "Outraged liberals:...

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The Assassination Remark And Hillary's Image Abroad

Posted June 4, 2008 | 02:26 PM (EST)


In an effort to defend the longevity of the 2008 Democratic race, Hillary Clinton commented to a South Dakota newspaper editorial board that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, did not receive his party's nomination until June. She also invoked the 1968 Democratic race, remarking, "we all remember...

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