Eqbal Ahmad (1933-1999) was an extremely influential writer and activist who rose to world-wide prominence as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War. Ahmad was a leftist's leftist with friends that included Howard Zinn, Edward Said, and Noam Chomsky. He wrote about the blowback of US foreign policy in the Middle East and predicted the rise of Al Qaeda and the Taliban long before anyone else. Never in his lifetime did he publish a book. This collection of interviews was assembled by internationally respected pioneer of independent media David Barsamian after Ahmad's death.