Michael Deibert, Writer

Michael Deibert is the author of Haiti Will Not Perish: A Recent History (Zed Books), In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America's Drug War in Mexico (Lyons Press, 2014), The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair (Zed Books, 2013) and Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti (Seven Stories Press, 2005). He can be followed at twitter.com/michaelcdeibert.

Sunday, January 01, 2023

2022: A Reporter's Notebook of the Year Gone By

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Though much of my year was wrapped up in working on my new book, I did publish a few articles that I thought were worthwhile during the last...

Books in 2022: A Personal Selection

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Henry Miller on the Greek island of Hydra, 1939. Athens In Poems: An Imaginative Map of the City An absolutely gorgeous selection of poetr...

Saturday, December 31, 2022

Haiti Is At War

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Aug 14, 2022 Haiti Is At War By Michael Deibert Ozy Haiti has a long, troubled history of politicians using local gangs for political muscle...

Michael Deibert Speaking To Al Jazeera on Anniversary of Assassination of Haiti's Jovenel Moïse

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Freedom Soup and the Liberation of Haiti

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Freedom Soup and the Liberation of Haiti The cuisine, a combination of African and European influences, also tells the story of this comple...

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Restoring Glory to a Baltimore Neighborhood

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Restoring Glory to a Baltimore Neighborhood The Sandtown-Winchester area burst into America’s consciousness with the murder by police of ...

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Michael Deibert: I am an author and journalist who focuses on Haiti, the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Mexico, Guatemala and occasionally further afield in Africa, the Americas and Europe. Hopefully, that means being of some use in the struggle of economically and socially disadvantaged people to lead more just and decent lives. Photo © Hilary Wallis

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