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Tariq Ali | |
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 Ali in 2011 | |
| Born | 21 October 1943 Lahore, Punjab, British India |
| Occupation | Political Activist Historian Novelist |
| Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford, Government College University, Lahore |
| Genre | Geopolitics History Marxism Postcolonialism |
| Literary movement | New Left |
| Spouse | Susan Watkins |
| Children | 3 |
Tariq Ali (Urdu: طارق علی; /ˈtærɪk ˈæli/; born 21 October 1943)[1] is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual.[2][3] He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford.
He is the author of many books, including Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970), Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1983), Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002), Bush in Babylon (2003), Conversations with Edward Said (2005), Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis Of Hope (2006), A Banker for All Seasons (2007), The Duel (2008), The Obama Syndrome (2010),[4] and The Extreme Centre: A Warning (2015).[5]
- ^ Stade, George (2009). Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present Volume 2. p. 12.
- ^ Tariq Ali Biography Archived 1 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Contemporary Writers, accessed 31 October 2006
- ^ "As 250 Killed in Clashes Near Afghan Border, British-Pakistani Author Tariq Ali on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Ongoing U.S. Role in Regional Turmoil Archived 14 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine", Democracy Now!, 10 October 2007. Retrieved 11 October 2007.
- ^ "Tariq Ali". British Council of Literature. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- ^ "Archives". tariqali.org. Tariq Ali. Archived from the original on 20 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.