Category Archives: Interviews

An educator and member of the National Assembly, Ali co-chaired the Pakistan-U.K. task force which helped identify key areas in Pakistan’s education sector for aid from Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID). Continue reading →

Pakistan’s shadow education minister talks to Bisma Ahmed about the U.K.’s decision to spend £650 million on primary education here.
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Shobhan Saxena

In 2008, Bangladeshi writer Tahmima Anam , 36, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for her first novel A Golden Age, a stunning Continue reading →

Bilal Randeree

Sami Ben Gharbia is a Tunisian human rights campaigner that lived in exile for many years. He is the Advocacy Director at Global Voices and the co-founder of nawaat.org.
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By Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is one of the major intellectuals of our time. The eighty-two-year-old American linguist, philosopher and activist is a severe critic of US foreign and economic policy. Ceyda Nurtsch talked to him about the Arabic spring in its global context
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INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS

Gen. Ehsan ul-Haq took office as the head of Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) directorate in October 2001, and by the time he retired six years later he had risen to commander in chief of Pakistan’s armed forces. Continue reading →

An Interview with Vijay Prashad
By KOUROSH ZIABARI

Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History and Director of International Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, Continue reading →

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari visited Russia earlier this month for broad-ranging strategic talks. Continue reading →