Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Oliver Cockburn (born 5 March 1950) is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times and, since 1991, the Independent. He has also worked as a correspondent in Moscow and Washington and is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books. He has written three books on Iraq's recent history. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009,[1] Foreign Commentator of the Year (Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards 2013, Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year (British Journalism Awards 2014), Foreign Reporter of the Year (The Press Awards For 2014).
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Though capable of staging spectacular attacks like 9/11, jihadist organizations were not a significant force on the ground when they first became notorious in the shape of al-Qa ‘ida at the turn ...
Nighat Said Khan
Nighat Said Khan is a prominent feminist activist, academic and author in Pakistan. She is the director and founder of the Applied Socio-Economic Research (ASR) Resource Centre and a founding membe
Sreemati Chakrabarti
Sreemati Chakrabarti is a former Professor, Department of East Asian Studies and former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi. She is also Honorary Fellow and Vice-Chairperson, Inst
Kumkum Sangari
Kumkum Sangari, editor of the book, is William F. Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published extensively on British, Ame
Uma Chakravarti
Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian who taught at Miranda House, University of Delhi, from where she took early retirement in 1998. She has been associated with the women’s movement and the moveMichael Jackson
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Subodh Roy (1916–2006) was the youngest participant (aged 14) in the Chittagong Armoury Raid in 1930, led by Surya Sen (Masterda). Affectionately called Jhunku, Roy took part in the