Writer, journalist and film-maker Tariq Ali was born in Lahore in 1943. He was educated at Oxford University, where he became involved in student politics, in particular with the movement against the war in Vietnam. On graduating he led the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. He owned his own independent television production company, Bandung, which produced programmes for Channel 4 in the UK during the 1980s. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and contributes articles and journalism to magazines and newspapers including The Guardian and the London Review of Books. He is editorial director of London publishers 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 (1992), The Book of Saladin (1998), The Stone Woman (2000) and A Sultan in Palermo (2005). His non-fiction includes 1968:Marching in the Streets (1998), a social history of the 1960s. A book of essays, The Clash of Fundamentalisms, was published in 2002.
Tariq Ali's non-fiction works include Conversations with Edward Said (2005); Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror (2005); and Speaking of Empire and Resistance (2005), which takes the form of a series of conversations with the author. The Leopard and the Fox (2007) is the script of a three-part TV series commissioned by the BBC and later withdrawn, and includes the background to the story. His latest book is The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, published in 2008- Buy Tariq Ali books from Blackwells
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 Chatto & Windus, 1999
Masters of the Universe: NATO's Balkan Crusade Verso, 2000
The Stone Woman Verso, 2000
The Clash of Fundamentalisms Verso, 2002
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
The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power Simon & Schuster, 2008
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