Remembering Eqbal Ahmad

Posted on October 13, 2006
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Guest Post by Beena Sarwar When Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in his address to the UN on Sept 20 held up a copy of Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (2003) and recommended it as essential reading to understand contemporary world politics, he could have been talking about The Selected Writings […]

The Literature of Disaster

Posted on October 10, 2006
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Adil Najam This rather interesting news item in Dawn (8 October, 2006) caught my attention and I thought it was worth sharing. Ours is not a country of book lovers, yet several books have already been published in Pakistan dealing with last year’s deadly earthquake. This phenomenon is no doubt linked to the severity of […]

Who said What to Whom, Did What, When and Why?

Posted on September 25, 2006
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Adil Najam Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s much anticipated autobiography, In the Line of Fire, will officially be released in a few hours. It will be launched at a signing ceremony at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. [Earlier ATP posts here, here and here]. The build-up – whether intended by the publisher, Simon and […]

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