'“There can be no reconciliation without a reorganization of power.”
Mahmood Mamdani, father of mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and one of the most influential theorists of colonialism and political violence, has spent his career challenging the narratives through which nations explain themselves. Hailed as a pioneering thinker of global politics, he has transformed debates on race, citizenship, and the afterlives of empire by insisting that modern crises cannot be separated from their historical foundations.
He holds the Herbert Lehman Chair at Columbia University and is the author of Citizen and Subject, When Victims Become Killers, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, and Neither Settler Nor Native. He has received numerous awards and recognitions, including being listed as one of the "Top 20 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy (US) and Prospect (UK) magazine in 2008. In 2021, he was nominated Among ‘The World’s Top 50 Thinkers’ by Prospect Magazine, UK.
"Demonstrates how a broad rethinking of political issues becomes possible when Western ideals and practices are examined from the vantage point of Asia and Africa." — Pankaj Mishra, New York Review of Books
