Writer, renowned journalist and film-maker, Tariq Ali was born in Lahore in 1943. He graduated from Oxford University, and on leaving went on to lead the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. During the 1980s he owned his own independent production company, Bandung, which produced programmes for Channel 4 in the UK. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and contributes to magazines and newspapers including The Guardian and the London Review of Books. He is editorial director of London publisher Verso and is on the board of the New Left Review, for whom he is also an editor.
His fiction includes a series of historical novels about Islam: Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (Chatto & Windus 1992), The Book of Saladin (Verso1998), The Stone Woman (Verso 2000) and A Sultan in Palermo (Verso 2005). His non-fiction includes 1968: Marching in the Streets (Bloomsbury 1998), a social history of the 1960s.
You can find out more information by visiting Tariq Ali's web site.
Website:
http://www.tariqali.org
Bibliography:
Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power?, Jonathan Cape, 1970
1968 and After: Inside the Revolution Blond and Briggs, 1978
Chile, Lessons of the Coup: Which Way to Workers' Power? (with Gerry Hedley) IMG Publications, 1978
Can Pakistan Survive?: The Death of a State Penguin, 1983
The Stalinist Legacy: Its Impact on 20th-Century World Politics Penguin, 1984
Who's Afraid of Margaret Thatcher?: In Praise of Socialism (In Conversation with Ken Livingstone) Verso, 1984
The Nehrus and the Gandhis: An Indian Dynasty Chatto & Windus, 1985
Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties Collins, 1987
Iranian Nights (with Howard Brenton) Nick Hern Books, 1989
Moscow Gold (with Howard Brenton) Nick Hern Books, 1990
Redemption Chatto & Windus, 1990
Necklaces Bourne Associates, 1992
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree Chatto & Windus, 1992
1968: Marching in the Streets Bloomsbury, 1998
Fear of Mirrors Arcadia Books, 1998
Revolution from Above: Where is the Soviet Union Going? Hutchinson, 1998
The Book of Saladin Verso, 1998
Trotsky for Beginners Icon Books, 1998
Ugly Rumours (with Howard Brenton) Nick Hern Books, 1998
Fear of Mirrors Arcadia, 1999
Masters of the Universe: NATO's Balkan Crusade Verso, 2000
The Stone Woman Verso, 2000
The Clash of Fundamentalisms Verso, 2002
The Illustrious Corpse, Oberon Modern Plays, 2003
Bush in Babylon Verso, 2003
A Sultan in Palermo Verso, 2005
Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror Verso, 2005
Speaking of Empire and Resistance (with David Barsamian) The New Press, 2005
Conversations with Edward Said (with Edward Said) Seagull Books, 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope Verso, 2006
The Leopard and the Fox Seagull Books, 2007
A Banker for all Seasons, Seagull Books, 2008
The Duel: Pakistan on the Flightpath of American Power, Scribner, 2008
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