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- Biography: Tariq Ali (Punjabi, Urdu: طارق علی) (born October 21, 1943) is a British-Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and regularly contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books.
Filmography
- The Road to Fallujah (2009)
- Big Women (1998)
- Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing (1995)
- Wittgenstein (1993)
- Partition (1987)
News
August 12, 2008 Vinod Joseph In The Book of Saladin , Tariq Ali goes back a few centuries from his first book, . This second novel in Tariq Alis Islam Quintet is set in the 12th Century and is narrated ... Full Article
August 07, 2008 Vinod Joseph Tariq Ali is a very well known left-wing historian of Pakistani origin based in the UK. The first four books of Alis Islam Quintet tell the story of how Islamic Empires rose and fell in ... Full Article
Tariq Ali is one of the most articulate leftist and secularist thinkers to have come out of Pakistan and has been living in exile in London since the 1960s when he began to speak out against the countrys first military ... Full Article
There can be nothing more pathetic than a middle-aged 'radical' preaching treason and penning seditious pamphlets. As a friend, who spent his 20s fighting for lost causes and getting beaten up by the police before being frog-marched to Kolkata's Lalbazar ... Full Article