Tariq Ali

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Writer & Activist

Tariq Ali is a British Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker and Middle East expert who has written over a dozen books on world history and politics and five novels. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review, and regularly contributes to The Guardian, Counterpunch and the London Review of Books.

Some of Tariq’s books are: Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope (2006), Conversations with Edward Said (2005), Bush in Babylon (2003), and Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002).

Appearances on Democracy Now!

December 28, 2007 Pakistan in Turmoil after Benazir Bhutto’s Assassination

October 17, 2006 On Hugo Chavez, the Axis Of Hope and His New Book “Pirates of the Caribbean

April 14, 2005 Tariq Ali on Political Activism from Pakistan to Vietnam to Iraq

February 10, 2004 Tariq Ali on Pakistan’s Nuclear Program, the Hutton Inquiry and the Iraqi Resistance

December 04, 2003 Tariq Ali vs. Christopher Hitchens on the Occupation of Iraq: Postponed Liberation or Recolonisation?

October 16, 2003 Without a Strong American Opposition We Are Doomed – Renowned Author and Middle East Expert Tariq Ali Speaks Out on Iraq

March 14, 2003 Acclaimed Writer Tariq Ali Calls On Kofi Annan to Go to Baghdad As a Human Shield: A Discussion with Ali and Gilbert Achcar

October 31, 2001 Pakistani Author and Playwright Tariq Ali Is Detained at the Munich Airport