Tlili, Ahmed Interview, 1966-1967
Collection Number: 6411 OH
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Ahmed Tlili Interview, 1966-1967
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6411 OH
Abstract:
Transcript of an interview of Ahmed Tlili by Eqbal Ahmad, January 7, 1966. The entire
transcript is in French.
Creator:
Tlili, Ahmed
Ahmad, Eqbal
Quanitities:
0.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in French
Ahmed Tlili, 1916-1967
Tunisian labor leader, Secretary-General of te Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT),
member of the administrative committee o fthe constituent congress. After Tunsian
independence in 1956, treasurer and member of the political office of the Neo-Destour
(New Constitutional Liberal Party, which led the Tunisian independence movement) from
1954 to 1963, Secretary-General of UGGT, 1956-1963. Died June 25, 1967, in Paris,
France, berried in Tunisian.
Eqbal Ahmad
Born in India to Indian Muslim family in 1933 or 1934, went to Pakistan in 1947 after
Partition. Received degree in 1951 fro Foreman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan,
M.A. in Modern History from Punjab University in Lahore, studied at Occidental College
in 1957, Ph.D. from Princeton, with dissertation on Tunisian labor movement. Taught
at University of Illinois, Carbondale, from 1964-1965; Cornell University, ILR, 1965-1968;
Fellow at the Adlai Stvenson Insstitute in Chicago, 1968-1792. Became involved in
the anti-Vietnam War movement, in 1971 he was indicted with Phillip Berrigan and six
other Catolic pacifists on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissenger and blow
up federal buildings, the Harrisburg 8, ended in a mistrial. Senior Fellow at Institute
for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, 1972-1982, director of its overseas affiliate,
the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Professor of Politics and Middle Eastern
Studies at Hampshire College, 1982-1997.
Returned to Pakitastan after retirement.
Editor of Journal of Race and Class, contributing editor o Middle East Report and
L'Economiste du Tiers Monde, co-founder of Pakistan Forum, founding member and editor
(1968-1983) of Afrique-Asie, editorial board member of Arab Studies Quarterly.
Died in Islamabad, May 11, 1999.
(from Wikipedia)
One 65 page typescrpt transcript of Professor Eqbal Ahmad's interview of Ahmed Tlili
on January 7, 1967. Includes index and handwritten emendations by Ahmed Tlili or Eqbal
Ahmad, signed with an illegible signature on January 6, 1967,
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
Ahmed Tlili Interview #6411 OH. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Ahmad, Eqbal
Tlili, Ahmed
CONTAINER LIST
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Description
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Date
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Interview Transcript
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1966-1967 | |
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Scope and Contents
This interview with Mr. Ahmed Tlili was held at the home of Professor Eqbal Ahmad,
on January 7, 1966. The interviewer is Professor Eqbal Ahmad. Interview was emended
on January 2, 1967.
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