Tariq Ali (born 21 October 1943), is a British Pakistani
military historianMilitary history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....
, novelist,
journalistA journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, filmmaker, public intellectual, political campaigner, activist, and commentator. He is a member of the editorial committee of the
New Left ReviewNew Left Review is a 160-page journal, published every two months from London, devoted to world politics, economy and culture. Often compared to the French-language Les Temps modernes, it is associated with Verso Books , and regularly features the essays of authorities on contemporary social...
and
Sin Permiso, and regularly contributes to
The GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
,
CounterPunchCounterpunch can refer to:* Counterpunch , a punch in boxing* CounterPunch, a bi-weekly political newsletter* Counterpunch , a type of punch used in traditional typography* Punch-Counterpunch, a Transformers character...
, and the
London Review of BooksThe London Review of Books is a fortnightly British magazine of literary and intellectual essays.-History:The LRB was founded in 1979, during the year-long lock-out at The Times, by publisher A...
.
He is the author of several books, including
Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1991),
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope (2006),
Conversations with Edward Said (2005),
Bush in BabylonBush in Babylon is a book by the historian Tariq Ali, that attacks the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The book comprises two parts, the first being a modern history of Iraq, the second a condemnation of the 2003 invasion. Ali uses poetry and critical essays to express his ideas.-References:Bush in...
(2003), and
Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002),
A Banker for All Seasons (2007),
The Duel (2008) and
The Obama Syndrome (2010).
Early life
Ali was born and raised in
LahoreLahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...
. The city was part of British India at the time of his birth in 1943, but became part of the newly independent nation of
PakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
four years later. He is the son of journalist
Mazhar Ali KhanMazhar Ali Khan was a socialist intellectual of Pakistan, and a member of the Pakistani Communist Party. He was, among other things, editor of the Pakistan Times in the 1950s when it was a progressive newspaper and he later brought out the famous Viewpoint magazine from Lahore. His son is Tariq...
and activist mother Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan (daughter of Sir Sikandar Hyat Khan who led the
Unionist Muslim LeagueThe Unionist Muslim League, also known simply as the Unionist Party was a political party based in the province of Punjab during the period of British rule in India. The Unionist Party mainly represented the interests of the landed gentry and landlords of Punjab, which included Muslims, Hindus and...
and was later Prime Minister of the Punjab from 1937–1942).
Ali's parents "both came from a very old, crusty, feudal family". His father had broken with the family's conventions in politics when he was a student, adopting
communismCommunism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
and
atheismAtheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities...
. Ali's mother also belonged to the same family, and became radicalized upon meeting his father. However, Ali was taught the fundamentals of Islam in order to be able to argue against it. He stated in
Islam, Empire, and the Left: Conversation with Tariq Ali: "I grew up an atheist. I make no secret of it. It was acceptable. In fact, when I think back, none of my friends were believers. None of them were religious; maybe a few were believers. But very few were religious in temperament."
Emerging activism
While studying at the
Punjab UniversityUniversity of the Punjab , colloquially known as Punjab University, is located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The University of the Punjab is the oldest and biggest University of Pakistan. The University of the Punjab was formally established with the convening of the first meeting of its...
, he organised demonstrations against Pakistan's military dictatorship. Ali's uncle was chief of Pakistan's Military Intelligence. His parents sent him to England to study at
Exeter College, OxfordExeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth oldest college of the University. The main entrance is on the east side of Turl Street...
, where he studied
Philosophy, Politics, and EconomicsPhilosophy, politics, and economics is a popular interdisciplinary undergraduate/graduate degree which combines study from the three disciplines...
. He was elected President of the
Oxford UnionThe Oxford Union Society, commonly referred to simply as the Oxford Union, is a debating society in the city of Oxford, Britain, whose membership is drawn primarily but not exclusively from the University of Oxford...
, in 1965. Ali's tenure at the Union included a meeting with
Malcolm XMalcolm X , born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz , was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its...
in December 1964 during which Malcolm X expressed deep consternation about his own risk of assassination.
Career
His public profile began to grow during the
Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
, when he engaged in debates against the war with such figures as
Henry KissingerHeinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...
and
Michael StewartRobert Michael Maitland Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, CH, PC was a British Labour politician and Fabian Socialist who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson.- Early life :...
. He testified at the
Russell TribunalThe Russell Tribunal, also known as the International War Crimes Tribunal or Russell-Sartre Tribunal, was a public body organized by British philosopher Bertrand Russell and hosted by French philosopher and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre...
over US involvement in Vietnam. As time passed, Ali became increasingly critical of American and
IsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i foreign policies. He is also well known for his satirical work. He was also a vigorous opponent of American relations with Pakistan that tended to back
military dictatorshipA military dictatorship is a form of government where in the political power resides with the military. It is similar but not identical to a stratocracy, a state ruled directly by the military....
s over democracy. He was one of the marchers on the American embassy in London in 1968 in a demonstration against the
Vietnam warThe Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
.
Active in the
New LeftThe New Left was a term used mainly in the United Kingdom and United States in reference to activists, educators, agitators and others in the 1960s and 1970s who sought to implement a broad range of reforms, in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more vanguardist...
of the 1960s, he has long been associated with the
New Left ReviewNew Left Review is a 160-page journal, published every two months from London, devoted to world politics, economy and culture. Often compared to the French-language Les Temps modernes, it is associated with Verso Books , and regularly features the essays of authorities on contemporary social...
. Drawn into revolutionary socialist politics through his involvement with
The Black DwarfThe Black Dwarf was a political and cultural newspaper published between May 1968 and 1972 by a collective of socialists in the United Kingdom...
newspaper, he joined a
TrotskyistTrotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky considered himself an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party of the working-class...
party, the
International Marxist GroupThe International Marxist Group was a Trotskyist group in Britain between 1968 and 1982. It was the British Section of the Fourth International. It and its youth organisation had had around 1,000 members and supporters in the late 1970s...
(IMG) in 1968. He was recruited to the leadership of the IMG and became a member of the International Executive Committee of the (reunified)
Fourth InternationalThe Fourth International is a Trotskyist international. In 1963, the majorities of the two public factions of the Fourth International, the International Secretariat and the International Committee, reunited, electing a United Secretariat of the Fourth International...
. He also befriended influential figures such as
Malcolm XMalcolm X , born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz , was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its...
,
Stokely CarmichaelKwame Ture , also known as Stokely Carmichael, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party...
,
John LennonJohn Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
, and
Yoko Onois a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
.
In 1967 Ali was in
CamiriCamiri is a town in Bolivia, Santa Cruz Department, Cordillera Province. It is the seat of the Camiri Municipality. The town has an estimated population of 33,705 inhabitants,...
,
BoliviaBolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
, not far from where
Che GuevaraErnesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
was captured, to observe the trial of
Régis DebrayJules Régis Debray is a French intellectual, journalist, government official and professor. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society; and for having fought in 1967 with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in...
. He was accused of being a Cuban revolutionary by authorities. Ali then said "If you torture me the whole night and I can speak Spanish in the morning I'll be grateful to you for the rest of my life."
During this period he was an IMG candidate in Sheffield Attercliffe at the February 1974 UK general election and was co-author of
Trotsky for Beginners, a cartoon book. In 1981, the IMG dissolved when its members entered the
Labour PartyThe Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
: the IMG was promptly proscribed. Ali then abandoned activism in the revolutionary left and supported
Tony BennAnthony Neil Wedgwood "Tony" Benn, PC is a British Labour Party politician and a former MP and Cabinet Minister.His successful campaign to renounce his hereditary peerage was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963...
in his bid to become deputy leader of the Labour Party that year.
In 1990, he published the satire
RedemptionRedemption, the first novel by author, historian and former Trotskyist Tariq Ali, is a roman à clef and apostate satire of the inability of Trotskyists to handle the downfall of the Eastern bloc....
, on the inability of the Trotskyists to handle the downfall of the
Eastern blocThe term Eastern Bloc or Communist Bloc refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact...
. The book contains parodies of many well-known figures in the Trotskyist movement.
His book
Bush in BabylonBush in Babylon is a book by the historian Tariq Ali, that attacks the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The book comprises two parts, the first being a modern history of Iraq, the second a condemnation of the 2003 invasion. Ali uses poetry and critical essays to express his ideas.-References:Bush in...
criticizes the
2003 invasion of IraqThe 2003 invasion of Iraq , was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 21 days of major combat operations...
by American president
George W. BushGeorge Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
. This book has a unique style, using
poetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
and critical essays in portraying the war in Iraq as a failure. Ali believes that the new Iraqi
governmentGovernment refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
will fail.
His previous book,
Clash of Fundamentalisms, puts the events of the September 11 attacks in historical perspective, covering the history of
IslamIslam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
from its foundations.
Ali has remained a critic of modern neoliberal economics and was present at the 2005
World Social ForumThe World Social Forum is an annual meeting of civil society organizations, first held in Brazil, which offers a self-conscious effort to develop an alternative future through the championing of counter-hegemonic globalization...
in
Porto AlegrePorto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...
,
BrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
where he was one of 19 to sign the
Porto Alegre ManifestoThe Porto Alegre Manifesto is a proposal for social change produced at the 2005 World Social Forum. It outlines "twelve... proposals, which [its authors] believe, together, give sense and direction to the construction of another, different world." The authors argue that "if they would be...
. He is a fan of the
Bolivarian RevolutionThe “Bolivarian Revolution” refers to a leftist social movement and political process in Venezuela led by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, the founder of the Fifth Republic Movement...
in
VenezuelaVenezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
.
He has been described as "the alleged inspiration" for the Rolling Stones' song "
Street Fighting Man"Street Fighting Man" is a song by English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones featured on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet. Called the band's "most political song", Rolling Stone ranked the song #295 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.-Inspiration:Originally titled and recorded...
", recorded in 1968.
John LennonJohn Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
's "
Power to the People"Power to the People" is a song written by John Lennon, released as a single in 1971 by John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band on Apple Records, catalogue Apple R5892 in the United Kingdom and Apple 1830 in the United States. It peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #7 on the British singles chart...
" was inspired by an interview Lennon gave to Ali.
In an article published in
CounterPunchCounterpunch can refer to:* Counterpunch , a punch in boxing* CounterPunch, a bi-weekly political newsletter* Counterpunch , a type of punch used in traditional typography* Punch-Counterpunch, a Transformers character...
, he responded to the
Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversyThe Regensburg lecture was delivered on 12 September 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg in Germany, where he had once served as a professor of theology. It was entitled "Glaube, Vernunft und Universität — Erinnerungen und Reflexionen"...
and said, "The Bavarian is a razor-sharp reactionary cleric. I think he knew what he was saying and why. In a neo-liberal world suffering from
environmental degradationEnvironmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of wildlife...
,
povertyPoverty is the lack of a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter. About 1.7 billion people are estimated to live...
,
hungerHunger is the most commonly used term to describe the social condition of people who frequently experience the physical sensation of desiring food.-Malnutrition, famine, starvation:...
,
repressionRepression may refer to:* Memory inhibition, the ability to filter irrelevant memories from attempts to recall* Political repression, the oppression or persecution of an individual or group for political reasons* Social repression...
, a ‘planet of slums’ (in the graphic phrase of
Mike DavisMike Davis is an American Marxist social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California.-Life:...
), the Pope chooses to insult the founder of a rival faith. The reaction in the Muslim world was predictable, but depressingly insufficient."
Screenplay
Tariq Ali's
The Leopard and The Fox, first written as a
BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
screenplay in 1985, is about the last days of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Never previously produced because of a censorship controversy, it was finally premiered in New York in October 2007, the day before former
Pakistani Prime MinisterThe Prime Minister of Pakistan , is the Head of Government of Pakistan who is designated to exercise as the country's Chief Executive. By the Constitution of Pakistan, Pakistan has the parliamentary democratic system of government...
Benazir BhuttoBenazir Bhutto was a democratic socialist who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996....
returned to her home country after eight years in exile.
in 2009, Ali, alongside
Mark WeisbrotMark Weisbrot is an American economist, columnist and co-director, with Dean Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. As a commentator, he contributes to publications such as New York Times, the UK's The Guardian, and Brazil's largest newspaper, Folha de S...
wrote the screenplay to the
Oliver StoneWilliam Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...
documentary
South of the Border.
Personal life
He currently lives in
HighgateHighgate is an area of North London on the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath.Highgate is one of the most expensive London suburbs in which to live. It has an active conservation body, the Highgate Society, to protect its character....
, London with his girlfriend Susan Watkins, editor of the
New Left Review. He has three children: Natasha, Chengiz, and Aisha.
He is friends with
David MilibandDavid Wright Miliband is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for South Shields since 2001, and was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2007 to 2010. He is the elder son of the late Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband...
and
Ed MilibandEdward Samuel Miliband is a British Labour Party politician, currently the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition...
both of whom are family friends.
Works (partial)
- Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970) ISBN 978-0224618649
- The Coming British Revolution (1971) ISBN 978-0224006309
- 1968 and After: Inside the Revolution (1978) ISBN 978-0856340826
- Chile, Lessons of the Coup: Which Way to Workers Power (1978) ISBN 978-0856121074
- Trotsky for Beginners (1980) ISBN 978-0906495278
- Can Pakistan Survive?: The Death of a State (1983) ISBN 978-0805271942; (1991) ISBN 978-0860912606
- Who's Afraid of Margaret Thatcher? In Praise of Socialism (1984) ISBN 978-0860918028
- The Stalinist Legacy: Its Impact on 20th-Century World Politics (1984) ISBN 978-0931477560
- An Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Family (1985) ISBN 978-0399130748
- Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties (1987) ISBN 978-0002177795
- Revolution from Above: Soviet Union Now (1988) ISBN 978-0860912682
- Iranian Nights (1989) ISBN 978-1854590268
- Moscow Gold (1990) ISBN 978-1854590787
- Redemption
Redemption, the first novel by author, historian and former Trotskyist Tariq Ali, is a roman à clef and apostate satire of the inability of Trotskyists to handle the downfall of the Eastern bloc....
(1990) ISBN 978-0701133948
- Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (1992; 1st in the 'Islam Quintet') ISBN 978-0701139445
- Necklaces (1992)
- Ugly Rumours
Ugly Rumours may refer to:*Ugly Rumours - a former United Kingdom band*Ugly Rumours - a novel about the Vietnam War band...
(1998) ISBN 978-1854594266
- 1968: Marching in the Streets (1998) ISBN 978-0747537632
- Fear of Mirrors
Fear of Mirrors is a novel by Tariq Ali published in 1998.The story is set in Germany after 1990 German reunification. While Germany may be reunited, the life of former East German dissident Vladimir Meyer has fallen apart....
Arcadia Books (4 Aug 1998) ISBN 978-1900850100; University of Chicago Press (10 Aug 2010) ISBN 978-1906497156
- The Book of Saladin
Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb , better known in the Western world as Saladin, was an Arabized Kurdish Muslim, who became the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria, and founded the Ayyubid dynasty. He led Muslim and Arab opposition to the Franks and other European Crusaders in the Levant...
(1998; 2nd in the 'Islam Quintet') ISBN 978-1859848340
- Snogging Ken (2000) ISBN 978-1840021639
- The Stone Woman (2000; 3rd in the 'Islam Quintet') ISBN 978-1859847640
- Masters of the Universe: NATO's Balkan Crusade (2000) ISBN 978-1859847527
- Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002) ISBN 978-1859846797
- Bush in Babylon
Bush in Babylon is a book by the historian Tariq Ali, that attacks the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The book comprises two parts, the first being a modern history of Iraq, the second a condemnation of the 2003 invasion. Ali uses poetry and critical essays to express his ideas.-References:Bush in...
(2003) ISBN 978-1859845837
- Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties (2005) ISBN 978-1844670291
- Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali (2005) ISBN 978-1565849549
- Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror (2005) ISBN 978-1844675456
- Conversations with Edward Said (2005) ISBN 978-1905422043
- A Sultan in Palermo (2005; featuring Muhammad al-Idrisi
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti or simply Al Idrisi was a Moroccan Muslim geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II. Muhammed al-Idrisi was born in Ceuta then belonging to the Almoravid Empire and died in...
and Roger II of SicilyRoger II was King of Sicily, son of Roger I of Sicily and successor to his brother Simon. He began his rule as Count of Sicily in 1105, later became Duke of Apulia and Calabria , then King of Sicily...
; 4th in the 'Islam Quintet') ISBN 978-1844670253
- The Leopard and the Fox (2006) ISBN 978-1905422296
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope (2006) ISBN 978-1844671021; revised ed. (2008) ISBN 978-1844672486
- A Banker for All Seasons: Bank of Crooks and Cheats Incorporated (2007) ISBN 978-1905422654
- The assassination: Who Killed Indira G? (2008) ISBN 978-1905422852
- The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power (2008) ISBN 978-1847373557
- The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom: and other Essays (2009) ISBN 978-1844673674
- The Idea of Communism (Non-fiction
Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...
) (2009) ISBN 978-1906497262
- Night of the Golden Butterfly (2010; 5th in the 'Islam Quintet') ISBN 978-1844676118
- The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad (2010) ISBN 978-1844674497
External links
Interviews and speeches
- A Clash of Civilizations of Fundamentalisms? A Conversation with Tariq Ali on pg. 115
- http://www.legalleft.org/?page_id=137 Tariq Ali speaks at Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...
on U.S. foreign policy and Afghanistan]
- Tariq Ali: Neoliberalism and Protectorate States in the post-Yugoslav Balkans (ZNet)
- Tariq Ali transcript & video of Conversations with History - Islam, Empire, and the Left
- "Media Matters" interview with Robert McChesney, 14 November 2004
- "We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane" (essay) - Tariq Ali
- 12-19-02 "On the Verge of War" talk - Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Gilbert Achcar and Isin Elicin
- "Seven Oaks Magazine" interview with Charles Demers
- "Naked Punch Review" interview
- A Life in Writing: Tariq Ali by The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
- 10-26-06 "The Latin American Challenge: Chavez, Morales, Castro" (audio recording)
- 10-01-06 W.B.A.I. Behind The News interview with Doug Henwood
- Audio recording of Tariq Ali speaking on his book Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope
- "The Ideas of Tariq Ali" on CBC Radio One
CBC Radio One is the English language news and information radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial free and offers both local and national programming...
’s IdeasIdeas is a long running scholarly radio documentary show on CBC Radio One. Co-created by Phyllis Webb and William A. Young, the show premiered in 1965 under the title The Best Ideas You'll Hear Tonight...
- Desert Island Discs Tariq Ali's choices for Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs is a BBC Radio 4 programme first broadcast on 29 January 1942. It is the second longest-running radio programme , and is the longest-running factual programme in the history of radio...
- Ali: "Obama’s Afghan-Pak Syndrome" - video report by Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of...
- Ali on his book The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad - video report by Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of...
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