Edward Said on Eqbal Ahmad

Edward Said on Eqbal Ahmad from Eqbal Ahmad FB Fan Page Admin on Vimeo.
Edward Said on Eqbal Ahmad. This is an excerpt from a talk on Eqbal of which we understand Edward Said and Radha Kumar were the two main speakers, occurring as a rememberance in Mid to late 1999.

Stories My Country Told Me - Eqbal Ahmad on the Grand Trunk Road (1996)

Stories My Country Told Me- Eqbal Ahmad on the Grand Trunk Road (1996) from Eqbal Ahmad FB Fan Page Admin on Vimeo.
Produced and Directed: H.O. Nazareth
Executive Producer: Anthony Wall
Film Editor: Jon Whitson
Cameramen: Ranjan Kamath and Arif Ali
Original Music Composed and Performed by" The Fratelli Brothers

Confronting Empire

A very dedicated and honorable activist, Eqbal was right in the middle of everything.... -- Noam Chomsky, MIT

Eqbal was a teacher, a poet-analyst, a mentor to far more of us than he knew. -- Phyllis Bennis, Insitute for Policy Studies

For [those] who have missed Eqbal Ahmad in the year since he died, this book comes like rain during a drought. -- Radha Kumar, Council on Foreign Relations

These interviews provide a wonderfully focused, yet wide-ranging compendium of Eqbal Ahmad's worldview.... -- Richard Falk, Princeton University

We have here the ideal combination for a dazzling intellectual encounter thoughtful questions by a superb interviewer... -- Howard Zinn, Boston University

The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad

Activist, journalist, and theorist, Eqbal Ahmad (1934–1999) was admired and consulted by revolutionaries and activists as well as policymakers and academics. In articles and columns published in such journals as the Nation, New York Review of Books, Monthly Review, and newspapers in Pakistan and Cairo, Ahmad inspired new ways of thinking about global issues. Whether writing on the rise of militant Islam, the conflict in Kashmir, U.S. involvement in Vietnam, or the cynical logic of Cold War geopolitics, Ahmad offered incisive, passionate, and often prophetic analyses of the major political events and movements of the second half of the twentieth century.

Eqbal Ahmed

Eqbal Ahmad: An obituary by Edward Said

by Edward Said, The Guardian, 14 May 1999

Eqbal Ahmad, perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of Asia and Africa, has died, aged 66, in Islamabad following an operation for colon cancer. A man of enormous charisma and incorruptible ideals, he was a prodigious talker and lecturer.