The Scripps College Humanities Institute: Vijay Prashad

The Global War on Terror from the Standpoint of its Victims Seen from a village in Waziristan, in the upper reaches of Pakistan, the Global War on Terror (GWOT) appears quite differently than it does in the antiseptic briefing rooms at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. It is to understand the GWOT from that vantage that I decided to report as widely as possible from the villages that are in the gunsights of the drone operators. This talk will travel through the landscape of the GWOT, assessing its various impact on countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya. Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian history and professor of international studies at Trinity College, is the author of over twenty books. His most recent books are The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (2016) and two edited volumes The Land of Blue Helmets: The UN in the Arab World (coedited with Karim Makdisi) and Communist Histories, vol. 1. His previous books