Dr. Lewis Aptekar: In the Lion’s Mouth Review
Dr. Lewis Aptekar is a retired Professor in Counselor Education
who has lived and worked in approximately thirty-five countries and has decades
of experience. He was a Professor in Counselor Education at San José State
University’s Connie L. Lurie College of Education between 1987 and 2016, when
he retired.
In 2010, Dr. Lewis Aptekar’s book “In the Lion's Mouth: Hope and
Heartbreak in Humanitarian Assistance,” was published. He received the
following five-star review that same year:
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“Can you
imagine yourself living in Kaliti, a displaced person's camp in Ethiopia
because you want to know what it's like to be such a person in such a place?
But it's not just curiosity that takes you there. You are a skilled,
well-practiced observer of human behavior in situ, so you know what to look
for, what to record,” the review begins. “The author of this compelling account of the strengths and weaknesses
of humanitarian aid programs as exemplified by this particular but not atypical
instance is Dr. Lewis Aptekar, who went to Ethiopia with his wife and two (then
quite young) children, with whom he shared the experience in Kaliti. They were
immersed with him in the life of the camp and they all came to know, as will
Aptekar's readers, the real human beings who lived there, not far from Addis
Ababa. This book is, in my opinion, as good as his earlier two classics, Street
Children of Cali and [Environmental] Disasters in Global Perspective.”
Would you like to continue learning about Dr. Lewis Aptekar’s
diverse career or peruse his published works? Interested readers can visit his author
page on Amazon for purchasing options or head to his personal webpage
for a full list of his publications,
presentations, grants, awards and program management experience.
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