{"product_id":"confronting-empire-paperback","title":"Confronting Empire - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEqbal Ahmad\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Barsamian\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEdward W. Said\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliant and insightful political analyses of key political events and movements of the second half of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEqbal Ahmad\u003c\/b\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eRace and Class\u003c\/i\u003e, contributing editor of \u003ci\u003eMiddle East Report\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eL'Economiste du Tiers Monde\u003c\/i\u003e, co-founder of Pakistan Forum, and an editorial board member of \u003ci\u003eArab Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. Upon his retirement from Hampshire college in 1997, he settled permanently in Pakistan, where he continued to write a weekly column for\u003ci\u003e Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e, Pakistan's oldest English language newspaper. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of America's most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists, \u003cb\u003eDavid Barsamian\u003c\/b\u003e has altered the independent media landscape, both with his weekly radio show \u003ci\u003eAlternative Radio\u003c\/i\u003e--now in its 30th year--and his books with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward W. Said\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 07, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693136056383,"sku":"9781608466214","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2fff0f53ae6560bdffe01f732e2d678c.webp?v=1764997884","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/confronting-empire-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}