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'Unhappy Yemen' in The London Review of Books

'Unhappy Yemen' by Tariq Ali for The London Review of Books, March 25, 2010

I left for Yemen as Obama was insisting that 'large chunks' of the country were 'not fully under government control', after Senator Joseph Lieberman had cheerfully announced that it was a suitable target for war and occupation. The sad underwear bomber who tried to blow up the Amsterdam flight on Christmas Day had triggered a new interest in the country, and in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), by claiming...

'The Imprisonment of Jafar Panahi'

'The Imprisonment of Jafar Panahi' by Tariq Ali for The London Review Blog, March 18, 2010

It's one of those ironies of history: a by-product of the clerical revolution in Iran was the emergence of a new wave of Iranian cinema. Kiarostami became the most celebrated auteur in the west, but he was part of a much larger creative and critical community. They view each other's work at rough-cut stage, they comment on scripts, they suggest actors: there is a strong sense of solidarity. The...

An evening of discussion in NY with Tariq Ali

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