Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He is the author of fourteen books, including Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (AK Press) and Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today & The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (2007). In 2013, he will publish The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South.
