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Tariq Ali


Born
in Lahore, Pakistan
October 21, 1943

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Tariq Ali (Punjabi, Urdu: طارق علی) 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.

He is the author of several books, including 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) and the recently published The Duel (2008).

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Average rating: 3.79 · 15,366 ratings · 1,710 reviews · 135 distinct works • Similar authors
Shadows of the Pomegranate ...
3.85 avg rating — 4,226 ratings — published 1992 — 19 editions
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The Book of Saladin (Islam ...
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The Clash of Fundamentalism...
3.83 avg rating — 914 ratings — published 2002 — 30 editions
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The Stone Woman (Islam Quin...
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A Sultan in Palermo (Islam ...
3.55 avg rating — 763 ratings — published 1979 — 39 editions
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The Duel: Pakistan on the F...
3.82 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 2008 — 17 editions
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Kashmir: A Case of Freedom
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The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terr...
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Night of the Golden Butterf...
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Shadows of the Pomegranate ... The Book of Saladin The Stone Woman A Sultan in Palermo Night of the Golden Butterfly
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“It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.”
― Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad
tags: 2010, 20th-century, activism, civil-disobedience, civil-rights, civil-rights-movement, politics, protest, racism, united-states
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“If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out of Palestine by the Zionist Government should have the same right, very simple.”
― Tariq Ali
tags: citizenship, israel, israeli-palestinian-conflict, jews, palestinians, right-of-return, zionism
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“This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.”
― Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad
tags: anti-democratic-thought, capitalism, democracy, deregulation, economics, financial-regulation, late-2000s-financial-crisis, late-2000s-recession, leftism, neoliberalism
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