Mahdi Amel

Mahdi Amel (1936–1987; given name Hassan Hamdan) was a professor at the Lebanese University and a central committee member of Lebanon’s Communist Party (LCP). He was a prominent theoretician of colonialism and ‘underdevelopment’ in an Arab context during the era of national liberation.

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David Harvey

David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to

Pranab Kanti Basu

Pranab Kanti Basu is presently on the faculty of the Department of Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati, where he teaches Marxian Economics. His previously published books are both in Bengali. The

Goutam Vahed

Goolam Vahed is Associate Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu Natal. He writes on histories of migration, ethnicity, religion, and identity formation among Indian South Africans.

Maryse Condé

Maryse Condé was born in Guadeloupe, a French territory of the Caribbean. She has taught extensively in Africa and the United States and is now a professor emerita at Columbia University, where she c

Ola Johansson

Ola Johansson is Associate Professor in Contemporary Performance Practice at the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts (ResCen), Middlesex University (UK). He has specialized in

Muneeza Shamsie

Harold R. Isaacs

Harold R. Isaacs was a writer and long-time student of Chinese affairs. The Tragedy, his first book, was based largely on long-hidden original historical documents and has been recognized for many

Sharika Thiranagama

Sharika Thiranagama is an assistant professor at the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.

Mahdi Amel

Mahdi Amel

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