Among the many topics covered during these wide-ranging discussions with David Barsamian are India and Pakistan's nuclear arms race; the U.S. attack on Afghanistan & the Sudan; the demonization of Islam; Osama bin Laden; state terror vs. individual and small-group terror; Iran; Israel and Zionism; V.S. Naipaul; globalization. Interview. August 24, 1998

Eqbal Ahmad
Eqbal Ahmad was Professor Emeritus of International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. For many years he was managing editor of the quarterly Race and Class. His articles and essays appeared in The Nation and other journals throughout the world. He wrote a weekly column for Dawn, Pakistan's oldest English newspaper. Confronting Empire, the book of Eqbal Ahmad interviews by David Barsamian, is published by South End Press. Eqbal Ahmad died in Islamabad on May 11, 1999.