M. Shahid Alam

M. Shahid Alam is professor emeritus of economics at Northeastern University. He is author of two books of poetry, not counting his books on political economy: Intimations of Ghalib (Orison Books, 2018) and Yardstick of Life (KDP, 2024). He may be reached at alqalam02760@yahoo.com.

Real Men Go to Tehran

Israel and the Consequences of "Uniqueness"

General Musharraf and the Recognition of Israel

How to be a Good Victim

Terrorism: America Defines Its Targets

A Muslim Problem

FoxNews Puts Me In Its Crosshairs

America’s New Civilizing Mission

Testing Free Speech in America

Seeking Parallels

America, Imagine This!

Making Sense of Our Times

A Failing Ideology?

The Civilizing Mission

Israel Builds Another Wall

A Comic Apology

Do the Facts Lie?

Lerner, Said and the Palestinians

The Semantics of Empire

Voiding the Palestinians

The Lessons of Mulla Nasruddin

The Dialectics of Terror

Pakistan Recognizes Israel

Is the US a "Terrorist Magnet?"

The Global Economy Since 1800

Bernard Lewis

Illuminating Thomas Friedman

Pauperizing the Periphery

Iraq is Free

Israelization of the United States

Clusterbombing as Blockbuster!

America’s Dual Mission

Is This a Clash of Civilizations?

Israel’s Proxy War

Bastard

Why 9-11 and Why Now?

A Day That Changed America

A Predatory Orientalism

The Political Geography of Palestine

The Civilizing Mission

I Will Fight Your Enemies

A New Theology of Power

CNN Reporting (poem)

Death by Sanctions

The Academic Boycott of Israel

American Presidents

Is Eurocentrism Unique?

A Colonizing Project Built on Lies

Thomas Friedman’s Lies

A New International Division of Labor