Biographical note

David Barsamian is the producer of the award-winning syndicated radio programme Alternative Radio in the US and has published books with Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Richard Wolff, Arundhati Roy and Edward W. Said. He has also collaborated extensively on books with Noam Chomsky, including Class Warfare (Pluto Press, 2002) and Propaganda and the Public Mind (Pluto Press, 2015). Edward Said is best known for two major publications: Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. A renowned cultural and literary critic, he is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and the recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2001.