David Rieff is a New York-based journalist and author. During the nineteen-nineties, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and in the early two-thousands in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel-Palestine.  Rieff has written extensively about Latin America, with a particular focus on Cuba, Mexico, and Argentina. He is the author of eleven books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West, A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the 21st century, In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and its Ironies, and, most recently, Desire and Fate (Eris Press), a reflection on another kind of war—the contemporary culture wars. Since the spring of 2022, in the wake of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Rieff has been focused on Ukraine and now teaches at National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy in the Ukrainian capital.

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