En memòria de

Eqbal Ahmad

1 de gener del 1933 — 11 de maig del 1999

Bihar · Islamabad

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Eqbal Ahmad was a Pakistani political scientist, writer and academic known for his anti-war activism, his support for resistance movements globally and academic contributions to the study of the Near East. Born in Bihar and Orissa Province, British India, Ahmad migrated to Pakistan during the Partition of India and went on to study economics at the Forman Christian College. After graduating, he worked briefly as an army officer and was wounded in the First Kashmir War in 1948. He participated in the Algerian Revolution, then studied the Vietnam War and U.S. imperialism, becoming an early opponent of the war upon his return to the U.S. in the mid-1960s.

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