Tariq Ali | |
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Ali at Imperial College, London in November 2003
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Born |
Lahore, Punjab, British India (now Pakistan) |
21 October 1943
Occupation |
Historian novelist activist |
Alma mater |
University of the Punjab Exeter College, Oxford |
Genre |
Geopolitics History Marxism Postcolonialism |
Literary movement | New Left |
Spouse | Susan Watkins |
Tariq Ali (/ˈtɑːrɪk ˈɑːli/; Punjabi, Urdu: طارق علی; born 21 October 1943) is a British-Pakistani writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, political activist, and public intellectual. 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 read PPE in University of Oxford.
He is the author of several books, including Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970), Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1991), 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), A Banker for All Seasons (2007), The Duel (2008), The Obama Syndrome (2010) and The Extreme Centre: A Warning (2015).