Nicholas Gabriel Arons has worked as a writer for international policy think tanks, at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, at public defender legal offices, for civil liberties organizations, and as a non-violence educator. He observed the impact of economic sanctions and U.S. bombings in Iraq, publishing his findings in Fellowship, UTNE Reader, Punk Planet, Counterpunch, Foreign Policy in Focus, and Iraq Under Siege. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to research the culture of drought in Brazil and is currently a Robert McKay Scholar, a Hays Fellow and an Institute for International Law and Justice Fellow at New York University School of Law.
"Rarely has any work so deeply touched, infuriated and,
surprisingly, imbued me with such hope...a noble, poetic
book."--Studs Terkel, author of Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith
in Difficult Times "Very occasionally, a book happens along which
is so honest and raw in its treatment of an otherwise dispassionate
subject (in this case drought) that it can move the reader to
tears. Nicholas Gabriel Arons has accomplished just such a rare
feat in his poetry-studded narrative of the reasons for, and the
multi-layered reactions to, the cyclical phenomenon of drought in
northeastern Brazil."--Journal of the Royal Anthropological
Institute "A passionate investigation of the contradictions of
drought and injustice in the Brazilian northeast."--Thomas
Skidmore, author of Modern Latin America and Politics In Brazil "A
lyrical, close-to-the ground account of the cultural politics and
poetics of living in the wings of an impending disaster."--Nancy
Scheper-Hughes, author of Death Without Weeping: The Violence of
Everyday Life in Brazil
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