Thursday, May 31, 2007

Economiques africaines: Deuxième partie

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The second article in my series on African economic issues, this time focusing on efforts to encourage diaspora investment in the continent,...
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West Africa: Currency Integration A Few Years Off

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My new article for the Inter Press Service, on the process of trying to create a single unified currency for many of the country's in We...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

New York City Serenade

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When I first arrived in New York City in the spring of 1997, being a relatively impoverished recent college graduate, I roomed with my frien...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Bombay, Meri Jaan

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Sometimes nostalgia bubbles up at the most unexpected and inexplicable moments. For instance, this week, as a stretch of fairly glorious spr...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

An Appeal to Decency on behalf of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent

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Address to Journalists & Editors Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean delivered at the Biscayne Bay Marriott Hotel, May 12, 2007,...
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Sunday, May 20, 2007

A brave battle against corruption?

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Let's hope so... Late this week Haiti's president René Préval, following the lead of such brave voices-in-the-wilderness as Haitian...
Friday, May 18, 2007

Another journalist slain in Haiti as an accused murderer walks free

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From Haiti we hear that Alix Joseph, director of Radio-Télé Provinciale, a private radio station in the northern Haitian port town of Gonaiv...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Cidade Maravilhosa, Bala perdida

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Thanks to the Rio de Janiero daily O Dia for this sadly apt portrait of my favorite city.

Ghosts, Bandits and Cité Soleil

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Recently, while perusing some new Haiti-related news items, I came upon a piece titled, with typical sober understatement, " Leni Riefe...
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Friday, May 04, 2007

Underreported: An Update on Kashmir

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I appeared on WNYC New York Public Radio today discussing the situation in Kashmir and my recent trip there, rather amusingly sandwiched in ...
Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Deibert on WNYC

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I will be interviewed on the Underreported segment of WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show regarding my recent trip to Kashmir at some point bet...
Monday, April 30, 2007

Alex Gibney’s Taxi to the Dark Side

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I was fortunate enough on Saturday night to be in the audience at the Tribeca Film Festival here in New York for a screening of Taxi to the ...
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Sudan: Do Something Now, Because People Are Dying Every Day

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My most recent article for the Inter Press Service, on the humanitarian disaster in the Sudanese region of Darfur and the Global Days for Da...
Friday, April 27, 2007

The most shocking thing in India

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As India, where I spent the early part of this year, strides into the 21st century witnessing as rapid an economic and social transformation...
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Monday, April 23, 2007

A Greener New York City?

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On Sunday, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg unveiled a broad tapestry of 127 measures designed to create what he called “the first ...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Henri Petithomme’s hunger for justice

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Almost lost in this week’s coverage of the new round of violence in Iraq and the latest violent explosion by a frustrated nerd with far to...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

Planet India: Where prosperity and poverty collide

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My review of Asia Society fellow Mira Kamdar's highly interesting new book, Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy is Transfor...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

A Literary Icon for "Les Dammés de la Terre"

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My article on the centenary of the masterful Haitian author Jacques Roumain has been published by the Inter Press Service today. It can be r...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Équipe haïtienne does it again

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While it may seem that Haitians may sometimes have little to cheer about, one group of individuals who have been gladdening the hearts of th...
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Sunday, April 08, 2007

Remember Gujarat

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Five years ago this spring, in the India state of Gujarat, something dark and terrible took place that appears to have passed from the world...
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