KARACHI, Nov 20: Noam Chomsky will deliver the Dr Eqbal Ahmad Distinguished Lecture at Lahore on Saturday and at Islamabad on Monday, organized by the Dr Eqbal Ahmad Foundation. The Lahore lecture is ...

Eqbal Ahmad was clearly one of the finest examples in South Asia of what his friend Edward Said called a “public intellectual.” He was also one of the first to urge a serious examination of the ...

The academic who held a Pakistani passport and came to be recognised as a keeper of humanity’s conscience Eqbal Ahmad was more than a scholar of international relations and politics; he was what the ...

Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Among anticolonial intellectuals, Pakistani scholar and activist Eqbal Ahmad (1933-99), who toward the end of his life ...