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Hundreds and thousands of Pakistanis attend the funeral of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Pakistan’s political future remains unclear and riots…
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.
In 2002 Canada unveiled an official list of “terrorist” organizations, strikingly similar to that of the the US government. Today the…
In 2002 Canada unveiled an official list of “terrorist” organizations, strikingly similar to that of the the US government. Today the Lebanese…
October 4, 2007 — Pakistan is best avoided in August, when the rains come and transform the plains into a huge steam…
THE U.S. launched its first assault in the “war on terror” in Afghanistan six years ago. Today, the country remains one…
The massacre in Karachi had been widely predicted. Benazir Bhutto herself has stated that she was aware of the dangers. The…
Tariq Ali has had a long and varied career as a political activist, editor of New Left magazine, documentary filmmaker, fiction writer,…
Tony Blair’s success was limited to winning three general elections in a row. A second-rate actor, he turned out to be a…
Milan, April – Editor of the New Left Review, well-known essayist, author of a series of suggestive historic novels about Islam, Tariq…
It is Year 6 of the UN-backed NATO occupation of Afghanistan, a joint US/EU mission. On 26 February there was an attempted…