Interviews with public intellectuals

Public Intellectuals, Radical Democracy And Social Movements, A Book Of Interviews is the title of a new book by Carmel Borg and Peter Mayo of the Faculty of Education, University of Malta.

The book, published in New York by Peter Lang, is available in paperback. It forms part of the Counterpoints series edited by Shirley Steinberg and Joe Kincheloe of McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

The publication contains interviews carried out by the authors with 17 public intellectuals from various parts of the world. These include American, Brazilian, Canadian, Egyptian, English, Italian, Maltese, Nicaraguan, Palestinian, Portuguese and Puerto Rican intellectuals, as well as an intellectual from the Caribbean.

The majority of these people are connected with progressive social movements ranging from the trade union movement to the feminist and environmental movements.

Among those interviewed are Frei Betto, Edoardo Martinelli (one of Don Lorenzo Milani's pupils at the School of Barbiana and one of the eight authors of the classic text, Lettera A Una Professoressa), Nita Freire (widow of Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire), Egyptian human rights activist Magda Adly and Palestinian peace activist Nahla Abdo.