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Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics—including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome—as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.
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July 05, 2012 - July 09, 2012
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‘A clarion call for peace’: recent coverage of Kashmir: The Case for Freedom
Arifa Akbar writes in the Independent that Kashmir is full of 'urgent truths' about the disputed region and its struggle for independence, praising Arundhati Roy for a particularly 'powerful' contribution. Paris Review recently published a short interview with Roy about her other recent book, Walking with the Comrades, in which she argues that in her opinion there is more hope to be found among the oppressed than their oppressors:
I always find it interesting that when you’re with people who are really at the receiving end of oppression, you find a lot less despair than you do in middle-class drawing rooms. In these situations, despair is not an option. I wonder if the amount of information that is hammered into our heads day and night leads people to think that the world’s problems are so huge they’re insurmountable. Whereas people who are fighting against something in a more or less localized way are far clearer about what they have to do and how they have to do it.
Tariq Ali: "World in Crisis" Broadcast
On December 6, 2-3 PM EST, Alternative Radio will be broadcasting Part Two of "World in Crisis," a special two-part program and interview with Tariq Ali.
On December 17, 2010 Muhammad Bouazizi, a street vendor in a small town in Tunisia, burned himself to death. He was protesting harassment and mistreatment by state authorities. His death fueled a revolt in Tunisia which toppled the Ben Ali dictatorship. The spark spread to Egypt and within weeks the decades old Mubarak regime was overthrown. The so-called Arab Spring rocked the entrenched old order. Those revolutionary currents have stirred the waters elsewhere. The economic collapse is shaking things up in the U.S. Witness the Occupy Wall Street movement. Americans, fed up and struggling to make ends meet, watch their military bomb and occupy countries from Pakistan to Yemen, are taking to the streets. Citizens are challenging and questioning the status quo. Are we on the edge of genuine change in the structure of power and privilege?
Tariq Ali, an internationally renowned writer and activist, was born in Lahore, Pakistan. For many years he has been based in London where he is an editor of New Left Review. A charismatic speaker, he is in great demand all over the world. In his spare time he is a filmmaker, playwright and novelist. He is the author of many books including The Clash of Fundamentalisms, Pirates of the Caribbean, Speaking of Empire & Resistance with David Barsamian, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, The Obama Syndrome, and On History with Oliver Stone.
Verso Books at the Occupy Boston Library
Via Stephen Squibb, a photo of Verso titles proudly stacked on the Occupy Boston Library milk crates:
Books in the photograph:
Planet of Slums, by Mike Davis
Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation, by Sujatha Fernandes
I'm with the Bears: Stories from a Damaged Planet, with contributions by Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, T.C. Boyle, Toby Litt, Lydia Millet, David Mitchell, Nathaniel Rich, Kim Stanley Robinson, Helen Simpson, and Wu Ming 1, and with an introduction by Bill McKibben
The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad, by Tariq Ali
Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed, by Paul Mason
The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation, and Human Rights, by Robin Blackburn
News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, by Juan González and Joseph Torres
Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers, by Frank Bardacke
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Kashmir
Leading international voices condemn the brutalities of the Kashmir occupation. -
The Obama Syndrome
A prescient dissection of Obama’s overseas escalation and domestic retreat, fully updated.
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Night of the Golden Butterfly
The final volume in Tariq Ali's acclaimed cycle of historical novels, The Islam Quintet.
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The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom
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Pirates of the Caribbean
Fully updated edition of this fiery polemic on Latin America’s challenge to US-led neoliberalism.
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A Sultan in Palermo
Set in medieval Palermo, this is the fourth novel in Tariq Ali's celebrated Islam Quintet.
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Rough Music
A seething report on the explosive state of affairs in Britain, after Blair's alliance with Bush.
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Street-Fighting Years
One of the world's best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement.
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Bush in Babylon
The bestselling history of the resistance in Iraq that vitalized the antiwar movement, fully updated.
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The Clash of Fundamentalisms
Tariq Ali dissects both Islamic and Western fundamentalism.
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The Stone Woman
"Ali spins a web of tales that is as inventive and fantastical as the Arabian nights."—The Times
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Masters of the Universe?
Distinguished dissidents oppose NATO’s war in the Balkans.
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The Book of Saladin
A rich and teeming chronicle set in Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem.
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Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
“An enthralling story, unraveled with thrift and verve.”—Independent