Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad

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This is a pioneering work comprising a diverse range of Ahmad's writings. It reflects his distinct understanding of world politics as well as his profound sense of empathy for those living in poverty and oppression. He was a fierce opponent of imperialism and corruption and advocated democratic transformations in postcolonial and third-world societies. A uniquely perceptive critic of colonialism and U.S. foreign policy, Ahmad was equally vigilant in his criticisms of third-world dictatorships.

I've spent much of my adult life, it seems, reading and learning from Eqbal Ahmad. He was a voice of faith and courage, - faith in mankind, faith in decency, faith in knowledge and facts, and the courage to always tell truth to power, no matter what the personal risk. In these essays, his legacy, he told us how to deal with Osama bin Laden and his terrorism. We did not listen. -Seymour M. Hersh

Eqbal Ahmad was perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of the postwar world. Ahmad's themes were always liberation and injustice or how to achieve the first without reproducing more of the second. Humanity and genuine secularism in this blood-drenched old century of ours had no finer champion.-Edward Said

Eqbal Ahmad is a brilliant man with brilliant insights. My only complaint about him is that he is not here now, when we need him most. -Arundhati Roy

Ahmad's world outlook transcends nationalist pride, expressing a profound passion for the equal right to dignity of humans in every comer of the globe. His knowledge of world affairs was formidable, coming in part from his personal acquaintance with important political actors on several continents. His style, both in speaking and writing, was dramatic and witty. He was not an armchair analyst but a participant in some of the most important struggles of our time in Algeria, in Vietnam, in Palestine. He was never bound by a single ideology, always committed to social justice and nonviolence. In short an exemplary human being. -Howard Zinn

DesiStore # PBH01115 ISBN 0-19-547163-6 Edition First Year 2006 Pages 620 Weight (kg) 0.80 Shipping Weight (lbs) 1.76 HB/PB Hard Back