These far-reaching and fascinating interviews demonstrate Ahmad's enormous acumen, ability and knowledge and develop the ideas in "The Amherst Interviews" and "Distorted Histories." Topics: Arab and Jewish stereotypes; Muhammad Iqbal and the Sufi poetry tradition; conflicts in Sri Lanka and the Balkans; pathologies of power in postcolonial states; resistance strategies to neoliberalism; the narcissism of small differences. October 12 & 13, 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.