Jill Carroll (photo), the journalist held hostage for nearly three months in Iraq last year, has returned to the Middle East to report for the Christian Science Monitor, a newspaper spokesman said Wednesday. Carroll has been working out of Cairo, Egypt, since last month, Monitor spokesman Jay Jostyn said. Carroll took on the Cairo assignment after completing a fellowship at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Carroll was working as a freelancer for the Monitor when she was kidnapped in Baghdad on Jan. 7, 2006. She was released March 30