In this brilliant presentation recorded at MIT, Ahmad explores the lives and thoughts of important activist/thinkers like Gramsci and the radical journalist I.F. Stone as well as India's Tagore & Gandhi. The lecture is followed by audience questions, including a memorable one on love & revolution.

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.