December 9, 12:30-2:00 PM

Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. He is the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College. He has been a staff writer and columnist for Frontline (India) since 1994, and is a weekly columnist for BirGün (Turkey) and Alternet (USA). He writes frequently for The Hindu and the Guardian, as well as is a regular guest on The Real News Network and Democracy Now. He is the author of twenty books, most recently The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (2016), which former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk calls ‘a brilliantly original interpretation of the major developments in the Middle East during the last several years’. It is based on fifteen years of reporting from West Asia and North Africa. He is also the co-editor, with Karim Makdisi, of The Land of Blue Helmets: The United Nations in the Arab World (UC Press, 2016) and the editor of Communist Histories, volume 1 (LeftWord Books, 2016)