Shahalam Tariq Sitting in a café in Beirut were three men; the literary critic Edward Said, the intellectual and activist Eqbal Ahmed and the poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Edward Said recalled the event that when Eqbal Ahmed had stopped translating Faiz’s verses for Said, but for Said “as the night…
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Washington Bullets: Review
Shahalam Tariq Every year piles of fresh anti-Communist literature appears, scattered around and above sacks of non-fiction and political literature. And in doing so, it introduces a population – ignorant of the history of national liberation movements in the Third World and of Cold War – to the apparent horrors…
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