Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, journalist, commentator and a Marxist intellectual. He is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. In 2013–2014, he was the Edward Said Chair at the American University of Beirut.
Prashad is the author of twenty books. In 2012, he published five books, including Arab Spring, Libyan Winter and Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today . His book The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World was chosen as the Best Nonfiction book by the Asian American Writers' Workshop in 2008 and it won the Muzaffar Ahmed Book Award in 2009. In 2013, Verso published his The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. He is author of No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism and the editor of Letters to Palestine , a book that includes the writings of Teju Cole, Sinan Antoon, Noura Erakat, and Junot Diaz.
Prashad is also a journalist. He writes regularly for Frontline, The Hindu, Alternet and BirGun. He usually writes on the Middle Eastern politics, development economics, North-South relations and current events.
In 2015, Prashad joined as the Chief Editor of the New Delhi-based publisher LeftWord Books. He is also an advisory board member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, part of the global BDS movement.
Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (2002), p. 38
Vijay Prashad in The Bolivian Coup Comes Down to One Precious Mineral, https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-bolivian-coup-comes-down-to-one-precious-mineral/ TruthDig, (13 November 2019)
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