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Tariq Ali
Writer, journalist and film-maker Tariq Ali was born in Lahore in 1943. He owned his own independent television production company, Bandung, which produced programmes for Channel 4 in the UK during the 1980s. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and contributes articles and journalism to magazines and newspapers including The Guardian and the London Review of Books. He is editorial director of London publishers Verso and is on the board of the New Left Review, for whom he is also an editor. He writes fiction and non-fiction and his non-fiction includes 1968: Marching in the Streets (1998), a social history of the 1960s; Conversations with Edward Said (2005); Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror (2005); and Speaking of Empire and Resistance (2005), which takes the form of a series of conversations with the author.
What has happened to the movement against the war that exploded in 2003, mobilizing millions of people in the entire West, to…
A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to…
(4 February 2008) The New York Times’ recently awoken sense of justice was dormant when Musharraf sacked the independent-minded judges, whose sin was ordering…
When I agreed to participate in the Turin Book Fair, which I have done before, I had no idea that the ‘guest…
A writer, journalist, filmmaker and leading figure among cultural-political analysts, Tariq Ali is the author of several important historical novels that examine…
Introduction to conference In Defense of Academic Freedom, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago 12 October 2007 Go to pt.2
(11 January 2008) With Pervez Musharraf trying to cling to power whatever the cost, a farcical succession within the Pakistan People’s Party, and continued…
Six hours before she was executed, Mary, Queen of Scots wrote to her brother-in-law, Henry III of France: "…As for my son,…
Even those of us sharply critical of Benazir Bhutto’s behaviour and policies – both while she was in office and more recently…