Tariq Ali

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October 21, 1943 in Lahore (now Pakistan), India

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Tariq Ali (Punjabi, Urdu: طارق علی) (born 21 October 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.

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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Tariq Ali in Thessaloniki and Athens

Thessaloniki Law School

28th May, 2012

7:30pm

National Technical University of Athens

29th May, 2012

7:30pm

Tariq Ali will be taking part in two discussions, in Thessaloniki and in Athens, concerning the development of international social movements in today’s world. Under the title “The Age of Extremes is back — Is the Age of Revolution coming?”, Tariq Ali will discuss potential answers to the curre...

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Average rating: 3.73 · 2,131 ratings · 274 reviews · 65 distinct works

	Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (Islam Quintet, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 459 ratings — published 1992 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Book of Saladin (Islam Quintet, #2) by Tariq Ali, Ali 3.76 avg rating — 335 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity 3.77 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Stone Woman (Islam Quintet, #3) 3.39 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	My rating:
	A Sultan in Palermo (Islam Quintet, #4) 3.47 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1980 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power 3.96 avg rating — 116 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope 3.65 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq 3.70 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad by Tariq Ali, Teri Reynolds (Contributor) 3.73 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixities 3.67 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Islam Quintet (5 books)
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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 , civil-disobedience , civil-rights , civil-rights-movement , politics , protest , racism , united-states

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“How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.”
― Tariq Ali, The Stone Woman

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“Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.”
― Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

tags: 2010 , affordable-care-act , barack-obama , bravery , cowardice , health-care , health-care-reform , politics , power , united-states , united-states-elections-2008

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