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	The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad; ; Eqbal Ahmad; edited by Carollee Bengelsdorf, Margaret Cerullo, and Yogesh ...
		Ahmad's themes were always liberation and injustice, or how to achieve the first without reproducing more of the second.
		Eqbal's commitment to a revolutionary politics that is moral rather than tactical, to fostering a transnational intellectual and political community, has never been more germane.
		Eqbal Ahmad (1934-1999) taught at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Cornell University and Hampshire College.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231127103.HTM (809 words)

	Eqbal Ahmad - Biography
		Eqbal Ahmad was born in the village of Irki in Bihar, India in 1933 or 1934.
		Ahmad graduated from Foreman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1951 with a degree in economics.
		In 1971, Ahmad was indicted with the anti-war Catholic priests, Daniel and Phillip Berrigan, along with four other Catholic pacifists, on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger.
	www.bitsonline.net /eqbal/biography.asp (496 words)

	Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire
		Eqbal Ahmad, the Pakistani-American academic and activist, to whose memory this work is dedicated, was a living embodiment of the courage, compassion and commitment of the secularist intellect.
		Eqbal Ahmad is affectionately described as ‘a genius at sympathy’, and there’s no doubt that he was a man possessed by the demands of universal solidarity and torn by his compassion for the oppressed.
		Eqbal Ahmad, however, was not a glib anti-Western rhetorician whose ideology was devoid of all political plans and moral imperatives for engaging with history.
	pmanzoor.info /Versi-Eqbal.htm (882 words)

	Eqbal Ahmad
		Ahmad was born in the village of Irki in Bihar.
		Ahmad graduated from Foreman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1951 with a degree in economics.
		Ahmad was admired as "an intellectual unintimidated by power or authority", and collaborated with such left-wing journalists and activists as Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Howard Zinn, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Richard Falk, Fredric Jameson, Alexander Cockburn and Daniel Berrigan.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/e/eq/eqbal_ahmad.html (575 words)

	Remembering Eqbal Ahmad : ALL THINGS PAKISTAN
		Poetry was one of Ahmad’s passions, and he was particularly fond of Ghalib and Faiz whom he would recite endlessly and translate for those around him, perhaps due to his interest in the progressive Islamic traditions and the separation of the religious and worldly powers.
		Eqbal was diagnosed with cancer of the colon in May 1999, as both countries geared up to celebrate their nuclear anniversaries.
		Under the banner of the Eqbal Ahmad Foundation, Parvez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian made documentary films on the nuclear issue and on Kashmir, opening discussion on subjects that were for long practically taboo.
	pakistaniat.com /2006/10/13/eqbal-ahmad (2543 words)

	South End Press \| Eqbal Ahmad
		Ahmad died suddenly in the spring of 1999 before Said’s dream came to fruition.
		Eqbal Ahmad was a peace activist and scholar born in India.
		"[Eqbal Ahmad] was a shining example of what a true internationalist should be.… Eqbal was at home in the history of all the world’s great civilizations.
	www.southendpress.org /2004/items/Ahmad (1113 words)

	Middle East Report 211: In Memoriam: Eqbal Ahmad, 1932-1999
		Eqbal was a gifted orator whose sharp and articulate political analysis displayed serious scholarship as well as militant commitment to principles of political liberation.
		Eqbal's enthusiasm and encouragement for MERIP stemmed from his abiding insistence that the antiwar and anti-imperialist movement must incorporate the Middle East, the Arab world and especially Palestine into its worldview.
		Eqbal brought to the movement the sensibilities of a staunch secularist steeped in his Indian Muslim culture and opposed to the politics of exclusion, whether rooted in religious or ethnic communalism or political ideology.
	www.merip.org /mer/mer211/211_eqbal_memoriam.html (635 words)

	Thoughts Of A Secular Sufi, by Noam Chomsky
		For Eqbal, 'the perils of nationalism' compare with the curse of religious fanaticism, taking on a still more virulent form when the pathologies merge in the post-colonial state - a configuration that is a harsh image of what came before, he argues.
		Eqbal sees comparable irony in the depiction of Muhammad Iqbal as the father of Pakistani nationalism, quoting his words that, 'In the whole world there is no country better than our India': the only national anthem he wrote 'that could have been adopted would have been India's'.
		Eqbal himself saw the post-colonial state as 'a bad version of the colonial one', with the same structure of 'a centralized power, a paternalistic bureaucracy, and an alliance of the military and landed notables'.
	www.chomsky.info /articles/2000----.htm (1046 words)

	Eqbal Ahmad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eqbal Ahmad was born in Irki village in Bihar, India where, at an early age, he witnessed his father being murdered in a land dispute.
		An able student in Lahore, Eqbal won a scholarship to a college in the USA in 1957 where he was to study politics and Middle Eastern history, earning a PhD from Princeton.
		Eqbal Ahmad was, without doubt, one of the most original and challenging of political thinkers on imperialism and nationalism and he was an excellent speaker and a very popular teacher.
	www.irr.org.uk /faces/ahmad.html (455 words)

	Guardian \| Eqbal Ahmad
		Ahmad was a fierce, often angry, combatant against what he perceived as human cruelty and perversity.
		Ahmad was an early and prominent opponent of the Vietnam war, and in 1970 was tried with the Berrigan brothers on a trumped-up charge of conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger - on which he and his alleged co-conspirators were acquitted.
		Ahmad was that rare thing, an intellectual unintimidated by power or authority, a companion in arms to such diverse figures as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Richard Falk, Fred Jameson, Alexander Cockburn and Daniel Berrigan.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,3864761-103684,00.html (719 words)

	EQBAL AHMAD -- AS I KNEW HIM
		Relations with Yasser Arafat, who for years had eagerly sought Eqbal's advice and wanted to give him a seat in the Palestine National Council, plummeted sharply after Eqbal became convinced that the US-sponsored Oslo accord would be a disaster for the Palestinians.
		Yes, it was the Eqbal Ahmad clan which had come together at this occasion, and it left me slightly breathless.
		Eqbal must have been the weirdest patient at the ICU they have experienced in their lives.
	www.gakushuin.ac.jp /%7E881791/hoodbhoy/Eqbal.html (1912 words)

	3quarksdaily
		Indeed Eqbal pointed out that, as he welcomed them to the white house in 1985, President Ronald Reagan actually called the Afghan Mujahideen (the future Taliban) "the moral equivalent of America's founding fathers." At the time, they were battling the Evil Empire, so no degree of hyperbole in their praise could be considered excessive.
		Eqbal was also able to correctly forecast (in 1988) that the birth of Jihad International would coincide with a disastrous rise in tensions between the Sunni and the Shia, with proxy wars between Saudi Arabia and Iran taking place on various battlegrounds, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, and as we can now clearly see, Iraq.
		Eqbal is seated at extreme left.] One measure of Eqbal's unwavering integrity and unerring moral compass is that in April of 1971, during his trial on these trumped up conspiracy charges, he took note of the worsening situation in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), and the Pakistani army's shameful atrocities there.
	3quarksdaily.blogs.com /3quarksdaily/2006/08/monday_musing_e.html (3565 words)

	Confronting Empires by Eqbal Ahmad - Reviewed
		Ahmad was born in the Indian province of Bihar, in the village of Irki, in either 1933 or 1934.
		Ahmad is critical of the strategy of the Palestine leadership, having discussed it unsuccessfully with Yasir Arafat on a number of occasions, arguing that meeting Israeli force with force is doomed to failure.
		Ahmad describes the Indian, Hindu Nationalist government as fascist and that both they and the Pakistan military rulers as caught in a medieval military mindset, but now equipped with nuclear weapons.
	www.spectrezine.org /reviews/ahmad.htm (736 words)

	Online NewsHour: Afghanistan -- U.S. Policy -- November 17, 1983
		EQBAL AHMAD: Three, the Soviet Union is reported to be insisting on maintaining the regime of Barbrak Karmal as heading the government within the broadened coalition.
		EQBAL AHMAD: However, I think it should be -- it should be underlined that without the support of the Pakistan government, more than the United States, the resistance will be nowhere.
		EQBAL AHMAD: It is my understanding that the United States is on the brink of giving these missiles, especially the SAM-7s -- the big push at the moment is for SAM-7s.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/afghanistan/afghan_11-17-83.html (2418 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| A true struggle, a good man
		Eqbal Ahmad, one of the most brilliant and unusual political thinkers and activists of the last 35 years, died on 10 May in an Islamabad hospital of complications following an operation for colon cancer a week earlier.
		Radiating an aura of profound peace and the understanding that comes with inner reconciliation and harmony from his small, trim figure, Ahmad was nevertheless a fierce, often angry combatant against what he perceived as human cruelty and perversity.
		No one more than Eqbal Ahmad captured and understood the human suffering and distorted vision that produced the reckless violence of people or movements who, in his memorable phrase, were radical but wrong.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/429/op2.htm (999 words)

	Video of Judith Butler's 2006 Eqbal Ahmad Lecturer - Hampshire College - Amherst, MA
		Butler is on the advisory council of the Jewish Voice for Peace, the board of directors of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Palestine and the executive committee of the U.S. chapter of Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace.
		The annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture honors the teaching, scholarship and activism of long-time Hampshire College professor, the late Eqbal Ahmad.
		Professor Ahmad’s faculty colleagues, former students, family and friends from around the globe have joined together to make this lecture series a continuing celebration of his life and work.
	www.hampshire.edu /cms/index.php?id=9291 (282 words)

	Left Turn: Notes from the Global Intifada
		Eqbal Ahmad is one of the most profound and visionary activist-intellectuals of the 20th Century.
		Ahmad critiques PLO resistance tactics, observing that âthe violence [the PLO] were practicing was a violence of the oppressed, but it was not revolutionary violenceâ¦ It was just not morally or politically rooted.
		Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire is a brief glance at the activist life and the revolutionary insights of one of our most important intellectuals.
	www.leftturn.org /Articles/PrintableView.aspx?id=376 (625 words)

	Distorted Histories
		Eqbal Ahmad, activist scholar, was born in India probably in 1934.
		Ahmad’s retirement ceremony from Hampshire College in October 1997 was a memorable two-day affair.
		Entitled "Celebrating Eqbal Ahmad", people had come from places as far away as California, Canada, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey and Pakistan to be part of it.
	www.himalmag.com /99Mar/eqbal.htm (8433 words)

	Alternative Radio : Eqbal Ahmad : Roots of the Gulf Crisis
		Eqbal Ahmad examines the origins of the current Gulf crisis.
		Eqbal Ahmad was Professor Emeritus of International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
		Eqbal Ahmad died in Islamabad on May 11, 1999.
	www.alternativeradio.org /programs/AHME001.shtml (161 words)

	Dr. Eqbal Ahmad
		According to a press release issued by Dr Eqbal's family, he was born in Bihar in 1932 and made the journey to Pakistan during partition as a teenager under harrowing circumstances which cemented at this early age his commitment to the cause of oppressed people.
		Eqbal was also a prominent and valued supporter of the cause of the Palestinian people, although like his close friend Edward Said he opposed the surrender of the Palestinian people's interests under the guise of the "Oslo Peace Process".
		He is survived by his wife Lie Ahmad in the United States and daughter Dohra Khadija Ahmad, several nephews and nieces and countless grieving friends in Pakistan, the Subcontinent, the Arab World, the US and Europe.
	www.cafearabica.com /people/people13/peoahmad13.html (506 words)

	Society and Culture No. 2
		Activists like Eqbal Ahmad might have been forgotten if it were not for David Basamian, the man who interviewed him before he died.
		Eqbal Ahmad has seen enough to point to the cupboard where the skeletons are hidden.
		Ahmad is for the truth, nothing but the truth.
	www.shaebia.org /society-culture/eqbal_ahmed.html (1476 words)

	The first interview on TNI: - Transnational Institute
		A few weeks ago when dr. Eqbal Ahmad, a professor from the United States, who, in addition to a number of scientific works also has a Pakistani passport to his name, arrived at Schiphol Airport, he was detained for two hours.
		Ahmad himself saw the court from inside during the 'Harrisbury' trials when sentences of life were meted out for complicity in planning to kidnap Kissinger.
		Before Pakistan existed, when Eqbal Ahmad was three years old, his father died, about in the manner of Floris V. He was a landowner, progressive and murdered by his colleague landowners.
	www.tni-archives.org /detail_page.phtml?page=interviews_nrc73uk (1431 words)

	DAWN - Irfan Hussain; 07 October, 2000
		Basically, Eqbal argued forcefully that the PLO's notions of "armed struggle" were counterproductive as this surrendered the moral high ground to Israel, at least in the eyes of the American public.
		Elaborating this theme at a conference in the United States where he was the keynote speaker, Eqbal said in one interview with Barsamian: "...I argued that armed struggle was supremely unsuitable to the Palestinian condition, that it was a mistake to put so much emphasis on it.
		Eqbal went on to argue passionately as only he could that Arafat should "develop a viable, acceptable peace proposal that die-hard Zionists may not accept, but the world, as well as decent Israeli opinion, could not afford to reject.
	dawn.com /weekly/mazdak/20001007.htm (1033 words)

	A Civilizing Mission
		Ahmad remained throughout his life a Marxist, but of a special kind, as the Indian social theorist Ashis Nandy reminded me in a recent conversation.
		Ahmad, by contrast, was led into political activism by a genuine love and compassion for the peoples of the Third World, who were anything but strangers to him.
		Ahmad, barely a teenager at the time, was forced to join the long caravan of refugees trekking to Pakistan.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20061127/kumar (960 words)

	iViews.com - Lessons from History: Israeli 1982 Invasion of Lebanon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eqbal Ahmed on Israeli 1982 Invasion of Lebanon.
		Eqbal Ahmad was born in Bihar, India in 1933.
		A prolific writer and journalist, Eqbal Ahmad was widely consulted by revolutionaries, journalists, activist leaders and policymakers around the world.
	www.iviews.com /Articles/articles.asp?ref=UP0608-3065 (640 words)

	Eqbal Ahmad -- Confronting Empire -- Eqbal Ahmad David Barsamian
		Ahmad died suddenly in the spring of 1999.
		Eqbal was at home in the history of all the world's great civilizations.
		"Eqbal Ahmad was unique in combining compassion for the dispossessed--en masse and one by one; the intellectual capacity to analyze cultural, political, and economic issues on a transnational level; and an ability to raise his always eloquent voice on behalf of constructive and original solutions."--Victory Navasky
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0896086151 (338 words)

	Desicritics.org: Eqbal Ahmad: Writer, Peace Activist, And to Many, Just Eqbal
		Eqbal Ahmad's writings are compulsory reading for anyone who wants to understand and improve the state of the world today.
		Eqbal was diagnosed with cancer of the colon in May 1999, as both countries geared up to celebrate their nuclear anniversaries.
		The Eqbal Ahmad Foundation set up by his relatives and friends holds an annual distinguished lecture series in Pakistan named for him.
	desicritics.org /2006/10/04/005035.php (1663 words)

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