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About Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of New Left Review and lives in London. Contact: tariq.ali3 [at] btinternet [dot] com.
  • ثلاثون خريطة تخبرك الكثير عن الشرق الأوسط (1) | نون بوست

    Conquered lands

    Originally published: New Left Review on January / February 2025 (more by New Left Review)  |

    To the victors, the spoils.

  • At the Stop the War protest at Whitehall in London. Source: Garry Knight - Flickr / cropped from original / CC0 1.0

    Tariq Ali: Memories of the struggle reloaded

    Originally published: Counterfire on December 13, 2024 by Michael Lavalette (more by Counterfire)  |

    Following the publication of Tariq Ali’s latest memoirs, he spoke to Michael Lavalette about the contrasting periods covered in his autobiographies and the prospects for the left today.

  • Tariq Ali speaking on Subversive Festival 2013 in Zagreb

    Tariq Ali: ‘Democracy is largely a set of rituals now’

    Tariq Ali and Jipson John and Jitheesh P. M.

    “There is no socialist blueprint. If you think there is a socialist blueprint, then you will only be a utopian. The formation of economic policies has to be done with the collaboration of those on whose behalf you are going to change structures.”

  • Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS)

    Killer Prince

    Originally published: New Left Review - Sidecar on April 1, 2021 (more by New Left Review - Sidecar)  |

    The Saudi offer of a ceasefire in Yemen on 22 March was an acknowledgement by Riyadh and its backers in Washington that they had lost the war.

  • Security personnel patrol during a lockdown in Srinagar on August 10, 2019. (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP) (Photo credit should read TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)

    Kashmir on the edge of the abyss

    Originally published: The New York Review of Books on August 13, 2019 (more by The New York Review of Books)  |

    Tariq Ali on the situation in Kashmir.

  • Julian Assange Outside the Gate of Hell

    Julian Assange outside the Gate of Hell

    Originally published: Verso on April 11, 2019 (more by Verso)  |

    I’ve been to see Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy several times, mainly when Rafael Correa was President and the Embassy felt like a liberated space. A few weeks ago I met him again. By now Correa’s successor, Lenín Moreno, had capitulated on every level to the American Empire.

  • Tariq Ali

    Tariq Ali: Full address and Questions

    Originally published: Oxford Union Youtube Channel on July 31, 2017 (more by Oxford Union Youtube Channel)

    Tariq Ali is a British-Pakistani writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, political activist, and public intellectual.

  • A Message to #OccupyGezi

    Tariq Ali

    “I want you to know that once again you have ignited hope in the whole European continent.  What you have done is extremely important because what it demonstrates is that young Turks are just as capable of resisting oppression from authoritarian democratic government as Greeks, as Spaniards, as Portuguese, as Italians, as everyone.  This courage […]

  • Tariq Ali on Syria and Libya: “Whenever the West Intervenes, It’s a Disaster”

    Tariq Ali and Rory Suchet

      Tariq Ali: I don’t think sanctions work.  They are essentially a symbolic measure.  Usually when sanctions are applied against a country, they affect the poor people in that country more than the ruling elites, as we saw for years before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.  They had imposed a bloody sanctions regime, […]

  • Libya: A Squalid Protectorate That the West Is Going to Create

    Tariq Ali

    Yes, “collaborators,” that’s the word, not “revolutionaries.”  Calling a spade a spade can at least get rectification started, though, pace the street-fighting intellectual, too late in the game. — Ed. The US-Nato intervention in Libya, with United Nations security council cover, is part of an orchestrated response to show support for the movement against one […]

  • Plan B for a Post-Mubarak Egypt?

    Tariq Ali

    “Freedom lies behind a door closed shut,” the great Egyptian poet Ahmed Shawqi wrote in the last century.  “It can only be knocked down with a bleeding fist.”  More than that is bleeding in the Arab world at the moment. The uprisings we are witnessing in Egypt have been a rude awakening for all those […]

  • New York Times’ Larry Rohter, Military Coup Supporter, Attacks Film That Celebrates Triumph of Democracy South of the Border

    Tariq Ali

    Letter to the New York Times, June 27, 2010 Larry Rohter attacks our film, “South of the Border,” for “mistakes, misstatements and missing details.”  But a close examination of the details reveals that the mistakes, misstatements, and missing details are his own, and that the film is factually accurate.  We will document this for each […]

  • About South of the Border

    Amy Goodman and Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone

      Listen to Amy Goodman’s interview with Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: Oliver Stone: So, Chávez was sort of a natural [as a subject for his work] because he is such a demonized, polarizing figure, but when I met him, it was not at all what I thought, you know, what we made him out […]

  • Tariq Ali: “Nobody in Washington Knows What the War Aim Is”

    Tariq Ali and Der Standard

      Tariq Ali says in an interview with Der Standard: To continue its war in Afghanistan, the US accepts the risk of destabilizing Pakistan.  But only a regional diplomatic approach can help. STANDARD: How would you evaluate the danger often invoked today that Pakistan is collapsing and its nuclear weapons may fall into the hands […]

  • No War: The Movement That Has Dissolved Itself [No war Il movimento che si è dissolto]

    Tariq Ali

    Cos’è successo al movimento contro la guerra che esplose nel 2003 mobilitando milioni di persone in tutto il mondo occidentale, al punto da esser definito una volta dal New York Times come «la seconda superpotenza»?Il fatto è che esso non è mai stato un movimento vero e proprio ma solo lo spasmo di un giorno, […]

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