{"product_id":"confronting-empire-9781608466214","title":"Confronting Empire","description":"Brilliant and insightful political analyses of key political events and movements of the second half of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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. \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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50676594999570,"sku":"9781608466214","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2ffdbe8b-63a7-4d74-820e-c50a5af30126.jpg?v=1733883680","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/confronting-empire-9781608466214","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}