Summary
The dedicatee of Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism — “For Eqbal Ahmad” — and one of the friends on whose indulgence, hospitality and criticisms Said says he depended in working on the book (Culture and Imperialism, PDF p.4, p.27 / printed p.xxviii).
Details
- In Chapter One, II, Said names Eqbal Ahmad and Faiz Ahmad Faiz in Pakistan, with Ngugi wa Thiongo in Kenya and Abdelrahman el Munif in the Arab world, as major thinkers and artists attesting to the real problems of democracy, development and destiny in newly independent states through the state persecution of intellectuals who carry on their thought and practice publicly and courageously; their sufferings have not blunted the intransigence of their thought (PDF p.45 / printed p.18).
- Neither they nor any like them was anything but unstinting in his hatred of implanted colonialism or the imperialism that kept it going, yet they were listened to only partially, whether in the West or by the ruling authorities in their own societies (PDF p.45 / printed p.18).