"Dawn of Freedom" by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Map of South Asia
Biographical Sketch of Eqbal Ahmad
Introduction by David Barsamian
Foreword by Edward W. Said
Chapter 1 Think Critically and Take Risks
Chapter 2 Distorted Histories
Chapter 3 Do Not Accept the Safe Haven
Selected Bibliography of Eqbal Ahmad's Writing
Index
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Eqbal Ahmad (1933-1999) was a Pakistani political scientist,
writer, journalist, and anti-war activist. A prolific writer and
journalist, Eqbal was widely consulted by revolutionaries,
journalists, activist leaders and policymakers around the world. He
was an editor of the journal Race and Class, contributing editor of
Middle East Report and L'Economiste du Tiers Monde, co-founder of
Pakistan Forum, and an editorial board member of Arab Studies
Quarterly. Upon his retirement from Hampshire college in 1997, he
settled permanently in Pakistan, where he continued to write a
weekly column for Dawn, Pakistan's oldest English language
newspaper.
One of America's most tireless and wide-ranging investigative
journalists, David Barsamian has altered the independent media
landscape, both with his weekly radio show Alternative Radionow in
its 30th yearand his books with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Tariq
Ali, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said.
Edward W. Said was University Professor of English and Comparative
Literature at Columbia. A member of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature and of Kings College
Cambridge, his celebrated works include Orientalism, The End of the
Peace Process, Power, Politics and Culture, and the memoir Out of
Place. He is also the editor, with Christopher Hitchens, of Blaming
the Victims, published by Verso. He died in September 2003.
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