Terrorism: Theirs and Ours

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Questioning America's radically self-contradictory policy towards foreign leaders over the years, the insights offered by this invaluable book circle around the premise that the terrorist of yesterday is the hero of today, and vice versa. In part one, Eqbal Ahmad holds up the concepts of 'terrorist' and 'freedom fighter' to US foreign policy. What do these terms mean Where do they apply How can the roots of political violence be stemmed In part two, David Barsamian interviews Ahmad upon his return from Afghanistan, where he met with and interviewed Osama bin Laden.

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"[Ahmad is] perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of the postwar world, particularly of the dynamics between the West and postcolonial Asia and Africa. Humanity and genuine secularism...had no finer champion." - Edward Said

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Eqbal Ahmad, who passed away in 1999, was professor of Emeritus of International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. For many years he served as managing editor of the quarterly Race and Class. His essays appeared in The Nation and other political journals throughout the world and he wrote a weekly column for Dawn, Pakistan's oldest English newspaper. David Barsamian is a journalist and the director of Alternative Radio. He is best known for the book-length interviews he has done with Noam Chomsky including, Chronicles of Dissent, Keeping the Rabble in Line, The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many and Class Warfare. He's also published a book-length interview with Edward Said, The Pen and the Sword and one with Eqbal Ahmad called Confronting Empire.