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Eqbal Ahmad (1933/34 - May 11, 1999) was a Pakistani writer, journalist, and anti-war activist. Events 330 - Byzantium is renamed ''Nova Roma'' during a dedication ceremony but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends He was strongly critical of the Middle East strategy of the United States as well as what he saw as the "twin curse" of nationalism and religious fanaticism in such countries as Pakistan. The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The term nationalism can refer to an Ideology, a sentiment, a form of Culture, or a Social movement that focuses on the Nation Religious fanaticism is Fanaticism associated with a Religion.

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Life

Ahmad was born in the village of Irki in the Indian state of Bihar. Bihar ( Hindi:बिहार Urdu: بہار bɪhaːr) is a state in eastern India. When he was a young boy, his father was murdered over a land dispute in his presence. During the partition of India in 1947, he and his older brothers migrated to Pakistan. The Partition of India was the partition of the British Indian Empire which led to the creation on August 14, 1947 and August 15, Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and

Ahmad graduated from Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1951 with a degree in economics. Forman Christian College is a private chartered University in Lahore, Pakistan. ( lahor is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi. Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. After serving briefly as an army officer, he enrolled at Occidental College in California in 1957. Occidental College is a small private coeducational liberal arts college located in Los Angeles California. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. From 1958 to 1960, he studied political science and Middle Eastern history at Princeton University, later earning his Ph.D.. Political science is a branch of Social sciences that deals with the theory and practice of Politics and the description and analysis of Political systems See also Timeline of Middle Eastern history This article is a general overview of the history of the Middle East. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation.

From 1960 to 1963, Ahmad lived in North Africa, working primarily in Algeria, where he joined the National Liberation Front. Algeria ( ar [[Arabic]] الجزائر, Al Jaza'ir ælʤæˈzæːʔir Amazigh: ⴷⵥⴰⵢⴻⵔ Dzayer) officially the People's The National Liberation Front ( Arabic: جبهة التحرير الوطني transliterated: Jabhat al-Taḩrīr al-Waţanī French: Front He was offered an opportunity to join the first independent Algerian government and refused in favor of life as an independent intellectual.

When he returned to the United States, Ahmad taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1964-65) and Cornell University in the school of Labour Relations (1965-68). The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago. During these years, he became known as one of the earliest and most vocal opponents of American policies in Vietnam and Cambodia. Vietnam (ˌviːɛtˈnɑːm Việt Nam) officially The Kingdom of Cambodia ( formerly known as Kampuchea (, transliterated: Preăh Réachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchea) is a country in South East From 1968 to 1972, he was a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute in Chicago.

In 1971, Ahmad was indicted with the anti-war Catholic priests Philip Berrigan and his brother Daniel, along with four other Catholic pacifists, on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger. Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". Philip Berrigan ( October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002) was an internationally renowned American Peace activist, Daniel Berrigan, SJ (born May 9, 1921) is a poet American Peace activist, and Roman Catholic Priest. Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923) is a German -born American bureaucrat diplomat and 1973 After fifty-nine hours of deliberations, the jury declared a mistrial, in 1972.

From 1972 to 1982, Ahmad was Senior Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Institute for Policy Studies ( IPS) is a Policy studies non-profit think-tank for progressive or liberal causes based in Washington D From 1973 to 1975, he served as the first director of its overseas affiliate, the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Transnational Institute (TNI is an international Think tank for progressive politics. Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west

In 1982, Ahmad joined the faculty at Hampshire College, a very progressive school, which was the first college in the nation to divest from South Africa, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he taught world politics and political science. Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts. Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States in the Connecticut River valley

In the early 1990s, Ahmad was granted a parcel of land in Pakistan by Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's government to build an independent, alternative university, named Khaldunia. The Prime Minister of Pakistan, in Urdu وزیر اعظم Wazir-e- Azam meaning "Grand Minister", is the Head of Government Benazir Bhutto ( Sindhi: بينظير ڀٽو Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو beːnəziːɾ bɦʊʈːoː (21 June 1953 &ndash 27 December 2007 was a The land was later seized by Bhutto's husband, Asif Zardari, reportedly to build a golf course and club. Asif Ali Zardari ( Urdu, Sindhi: آصف علی زرداری) (born 26 July 1955 is the 12th and current President of Pakistan and the Co-Chairman

Upon his retirement from Hampshire in 1997, he settled permanently in Pakistan, where he continued to write a weekly column, for Dawn, Pakistan's oldest English-language newspaper. Dawn is Pakistan 's oldest best known and most widely-read English-language newspaper Eqbal died in Islamabad in 1999 of heart failure following an operation for colon cancer. |name = Islamabad|native_name = |nickname = |settlement_type = Capital City |total_type Heart failure is a Cardiac condition that occurs when a problem with the structure or function of the Heart impairs its ability to supply Colorectal cancer, also called colon cancer or large bowel cancer, includes Cancerous growths in the colon, Rectum and

Since his death, a memorial lecture series has been established at Hampshire in his honor. Speakers have included in Kofi Annan, Edward Said, Noam Chomsky, and Arundhati Roy. Kofi Atta Annan, GCMG (born 8 April 1938 is a Ghanaian Diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations Edward Wadie Saïd MRSL ( إدوارد وديع سعيد,; 1 November 1935 &ndash 25 September Avram Noam Chomsky (noʊm ˈtʃɑmski born December 7 1928 is an American linguist, Philosopher, cognitive scientist, Political Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian Writer and Activist who won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel

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. Avram Noam Chomsky (noʊm ˈtʃɑmski born December 7 1928 is an American linguist, Philosopher, cognitive scientist, Political Edward Wadie Saïd MRSL ( إدوارد وديع سعيد,; 1 November 1935 &ndash 25 September Howard Zinn (born August 24 1922 is an American Historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and Playwright, best known Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (إبراهيم أبو لغد February 15, 1929 — May 23, 2001) was a Palestinian (later American Richard A Falk is an United States Professor of International law, a prolific writer speaker and activist on world affairs the author or co-author of Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. Alexander Claud Cockburn (ˈkoʊbɚn koh-burn born 6 June 1941 is an Irish-American political Journalist. Daniel Berrigan, SJ (born May 9, 1921) is a poet American Peace activist, and Roman Catholic Priest.

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[Ahmad was] perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of the post-war world, especially in the dynamics between the West and the post-colonial states of Asia and Africa. — Edward Said

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