Monday, March 31, 2014

Centenary

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Mexican writer Octavio Paz. Do yourself a favour and read El Laberinto de la...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Exploring the world of Haitian vodou

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The Miami Herald  Posted on Sun, Mar. 02, 2014  Exploring the world of Haitian vodou    By Michael Deibert  (Read the original arti...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Ayiti mwen fou pou w

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Photo © Michael Deibert
Wednesday, March 05, 2014

The Horror, the Horror

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Posted on Feb 28, 2014 The Horror, the Horror  A review of The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair, a book by Michael...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Africa Today discussion on crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga

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I spoke on Press TV's Africa Today along with Save the Congo's Vava Tampa and the LSE's Gabi Hesselbien about the crisis in th...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Three Graces

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Photo © Michael Deibert
Friday, January 24, 2014

Book Review: The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair

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17 January 2014   Book Review: The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despai      LSE’s Jonathan Silver calls Michael Deibe...

Wonderful postcard from Cuba

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Monday, January 13, 2014

La isla del encanto

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Photo © Michael Deibert
Friday, January 03, 2014

The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair by Michael Deibert – review

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The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair by Michael Deibert – review  Rory Carroll on a valuable, angry account of Cong...
Thursday, January 02, 2014

Obama mural, Little Haiti, Miami

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Obama mural Little Haiti, Miami. Inside, where a car struck it, someone has scrawled the words ...
Monday, December 30, 2013

2013: A Reporter's Notebook of the Year Gone By

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Busy as I was working on two books this year, my output in terms of articles was minimal. Nevertheless, I did manage to address some issu...

Books in 2013: A Personal Selection

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During a year in which I published one book, The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair (Zed Books), and finished another, ...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair by Michael Deibert – Reviewed by Kris Berwouts

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The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair by Michael Deibert Reviewed by Kris Berwouts  Posted on December 10, 2013 by...

One of the greatest

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Ai Weiwei at the Pérez Art Museum Miami

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Ai Weiwei's commentary on the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which killed nearly 70,000 people, a death toll blamed largely on governmen...
Sunday, December 08, 2013

Miami Art Basel 2013

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Photo © Michael Deibert
Friday, December 06, 2013

RIP, Madiba

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  "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Miami Book Fair

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Former United Nations official Mukesh Kapila, author of Against a Tide of Evil: How One Man Became the Whistleblower to the First Mass...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America's Drug War in Mexico

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  (I guess the cat is out of the bag, now. Look for it from Lyons Press in Spring 2014. MD)