Writer and film-maker Tariq Ali was born in Lahore and studied politics and philosophy at Oxford University. He was a prominent leader of opposition to the war in Vietnam and more recently the war in Iraq. Today he writes regularly for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Nation, and the London Review of Books and is on the editorial board of New Left Review. He has written more than a dozen books as well as scripts for both stage and screen. He lives in London.
Tariq Ali, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power. Simon & Schuster 2008.
Tariq Ali, Rough Music: Blair / Bombs / Baghdad / London / Terror. Verso 2005.
Tariq Ali & David Barsamian, Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali. The New Press 2005.
Tariq Ali, Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq. Verso 2003.
Tariq Ali, The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. Verso 2002.
Tariq Ali, Revolution from Above. Hutchinson 1988.
Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: brothers in arms, The Guardian, 26 July 2010
Islamophobia exposed, Socialist Worker, 10 July 2010
Response to Attack From the New York Times' Larry Rohter by Oliver Stone, Mark Weisbrot and Tariq Ali, CommonDreams.org, 28 June 2010
The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives by Gilbert Achcar, The Guardian, 26 June 2010
Freedom Flotilla Massacre, ZNet, 3 June 2010
Tariq Ali on Britain's Political Deadlock, Gordon Brown's Resignation and Pakistan's Role in the Times Square Bombing Attempt, Democracy Now! 11 May 2010
“The People of Greece Are Fighting for the Whole of Europe”: Tariq Ali and Mark Weisbrot Discuss Greece's Economic Crisis and Popular Uprising, Democracy Now! 11 May 2010
A life in writing: Tariq Ali by James Campbell, The Guardian, 8 May 2010
Unhappy Yemen, London Review of Books, 25 March 2010
Una visión roja de Oriente y Occidente por Carlos Prieto, Público, 25 de marzo de 2010
The Imprisonment of Jafar Panahi, London Review of Books, 18 March 2010
The Assault on Illhem, CounterPunch, 25 February 2010
John Lennon's power for the people, The Guardian/Comment is free, 2 February 2010
President of cant, New Left Review, January-February 2010
Remembering Daniel Bensaîd, CounterPunch, 15 January 2010
From Reconquista to Recolonization, CounterPunch, 6 January 2010
Short Cuts in Afghanistan, CounterPunch, 13 November 2009
Interview with Tariq Ali:"We Suffer from the Worst of Every World" by Raza Naeem, MR Zine, 7 November 2009
The life and death of Trotsky, The Guardian, 31 October 2009
Farce in Kabul, Tragedy in Pakistan, CounterPunch, 20 October 2009
Ahmed Rashid's War, CounterPunch, 9 October 2009
As US Continues Afghan, Iraq Occupations and Quashes Accountability for Gaza Assault, Critics Decry Awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to Obama, Democracy Now! 9 October 2009
The Afghan Folly, CounterPunch, 22 September 2009
Tariq Ali: "Nobody in Washington Knows What the War Aim Is" by Gudrun Harrer, MR Zine, 13 May 2009
Tariq Ali on a People's Victory in Pakistan, Obama's Escalation of Afghanistan War, and 6 Years of US Occupation in Iraq, Democracy Now! 19 March 2009
Capitalism's Deadly Logic, The Nation, 4 March 2009
Pakistan's drift into the hands of extremists, The Guardian/Comment is free, 3 March 2009
Tariq Ali on Obama: Imperialism with a human face by Derrick O'Keefe, Rabble, 16 February 2009
From the ashes of Gaza, The Guardian/Comment is free, 30 September 2008
Diary, London Review of Books, 18 December 2008
Brown's al-Qaida blame game, The Guardian, 15 December 2008
The Assault on Mumbai, CounterPunch, 27 November 2008
Operation Enduring Disaster, TomDispatch.com, 16 November 2008
Great expectations, The Guardian/Comment is free, 5 November 2008
Zardari Bans My Books, CounterPunch, 20 October 2008
Tales from the thinktank by Mohammed Hanif, The Guardian, 11 October 2008
Goodbye to Grosvenor Square, The Guardian/Comment is free, 3 October 2008
Dueling partners: Pakistan and America Tariq Ali interviewed by Wahajat Ali, Altmuslim, 30 September 2008
Casualties of another war, The Guardian, 23 September 2008
Has the U.S. Invasion of Pakistan Begun? TomDispatch.com, 16 September 2008
Asif Ali Zardari: the godfather as president, The Guardian/Comment is free, 7 September 2008
Musharraf was rambling and impervious to tormented cries from his people, The Independent, 19 August 2008
Musharraf will not go gentle into that golf course, The Independent on Sunday, 17 August 2008
Musharraf will be gone in days, The Guardian/Comment is free, 14 August 2008
Nato's lost cause, The Guardian/Comment is free, 11 June 2008
1968: Tariq Ali Looks Back, Democracy Now! 31 May 2008
The great Hypocritic's oath, The First Post, 29 May 2008
Labour's time is up, The Guardian/Comment is free, 27 May 2008
New Labour is Dead, CounterPunch, 3/4 May 2008
Afghanistan: Mirage of the Good War, New Left Review, March-April 2008
Livingstone for peace, The Guardian/Comment is free, 15 April 2008
No War: The Movement That Has Dissolved Itself, ZNet, 31 March 2008
Where has all the rage gone?, The Guardian, 22 March 2008
An Interview with Tariq Ali: Neo-Liberalism and Protectorate States in the Post-Yugoslav Balkans by Global Balkans, CounterPunch, 26 February 2008
Why I Will Not Participate in the Turin Book Fair, CounterPunch, 5 February 2008
Et Tu, New York Times?, CounterPunch, 1 February 2008
Pakistan's Plight, The Nation, 3 January 2008
CounterPunch, 31 December 2007 |
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My heart bleeds for Pakistan. It deserves better than this grotesque feudal charade |
The Independent, 31 December 2007 |
Pakistan in Turmoil after Benazir Bhutto's Assassination by Tariq Ali and Manan Ahmed |
Democracy Now! 28 December 2007 |
The Guardian, 28 December 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 24 December 2007 |
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"A Crude War Of Revenge": Tariq Ali on Afghanistan by Mike Whitney |
Information Clearing House, 29 November 2007 |
CounterPunch, 3 December 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 3/4 November 2007 |
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Afghanistan today: Six years of a war of terror Tariq Ali interviewed by Sherry Wolf |
Socialist Worker, 25 October 2007 |
CounterPunch, 24 October 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 20/21 October 2007 |
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Democracy Now! 10 October 2007 |
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| London Review of Books, 4 October 2007 |
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The Guardian/Comment is free, 30 August 2007 |
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The Guardian, 10 August 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 10 July 2007 |
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| The Guardian, 17 May 2007 |
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Democracy Now! 11 May 2007 |
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The Guardian, 11 May 2007 |
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The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan: The Khyber Impasse |
CounterPunch, 27 February 2007 |
Official politics in the west ignores public opinion at will |
The Guardian, 27 February 2007 |
London Review of Books, 4 January 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 30/31 December 2006 |
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Guardian Unlimited, 20 December 2006 |
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The Guardian, 20 December 2006 |
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CounterPunch, 30 November 2006 |
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Interview: Tariq Ali by Talat Ahmed |
Socialist Review, 16 November 2006 |
The Guardian, 9 November 2006 |
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The challenge to the empire by Tariq Ali and Anthony Arnove |
Socialist Worker, 20 October 2006 |
CounterPunch, 16/17 September 2006 |
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The Guardian, 9 September 2006 |
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Tariq Ali: Toward A New Radical Politics by Paige Austin |
MotherJones, 9 August 2006 |
The Guardian, 3 July 2006 |
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The Guardian, 20 July 2006 |
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This high-octane rocket-rattling against Tehran is unlikely to succeed |
The Guardian, 3 May 2006 |
Indonesia's Greatest Writer: On the Death of Pramoedya Ananta Toer |
CounterPunch, 2 May 2006 |
The Guardian, 25 April 2006 |
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New Left Review 38, March-April 2006 |
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Islam and the Left Tariq Ali interviewed by Alex De Jong and Paul Mepschen |
International Viewpoint, 2 April 2006 |
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Imperial Hubris An interview with Tariq Ali by David Barsamian |
Z Magazine, March 2006 |
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The new furies by Tom Nairn |
New Left Review, January-February 2006 |
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The Guardian, 13 February 2006 |
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An Interview with Tariq Ali: "The Real Threat is from Imperial Fundamentalism" by Marcus Dam |
CounterPunch, 30 January 2006 |
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The Guardian, 16 January 2006 |
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CounterPunch, 9 November 2005 |
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The Guardian, 22 October 2005 |
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CounterPunch, 11 October 2005 |
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The Guardian, 23 September 2005 |
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CounterPunch, 12 August 2005 |
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Socialist Review, 24 July 2005 |
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CounterPunch, 23/24 July 2005 |
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CounterPunch, 19 July 2005 |
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Socialist Worker, 18 July 2005 |
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The Guardian, 8 July 2005 |
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CounterPunch, 20 June 2005 |
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A Conversation With Tariq Ali (part 1) by Charles Demers |
Seven Oaks, 5 May 2005 |
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The Guardian, 23 April 2005 |
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The Guardian, 26 March 2005 |
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Socialist Worker, 17 March 2005 |
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The Guardian, 7 February 2005 |
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The Guardian, 12 August 2004 |
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ZNet, 3 July 2004 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org) |
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The Guardian, 14 February 2004 |
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ZNet, 17 December 2003 |
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The Guardian, 13 December 2003 |
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The Guardian, 3 November 2003 |
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Occupation Fuels Resistance An Interview |
Socialist Worker, 24 October 2003 |
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The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 August 2003 |
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New Left Review 21, May-June 2003 |
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The Guardian, 24 May 2003 |
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The Guardian, 21 February 2003 |