Tariq Ali, Author . Verso $20 (216p) ISBN 978-1-85984-583-7
London-based writer and filmmaker Ali has followed his careful and elaborate study of Islam and imperialism, The Clash of Fundamentalisms
, with this short and quick response to the 2003 Iraq war. This time around, he delivers a plaintive, choppy...
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Tariq Ali, Verso (Norton, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (168p) ISBN 9781844674497
In this slim but provocative volume, leftist writer and filmmaker Ali takes President Barack Obama to task for his first 18 months in office, arguing that despite the president's rhetoric of change, little distinguishes his administration from the...
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Tariq Ali, Author Verso $25 (367p) ISBN 978-1-85984-834-0
A very different novel from Fear of Mirrors reviewed above, Ali's earthy, lusty saga about the fall of Jerusalem to Muslim forces in 1187 rewrites Eurocentric history by focusing on the historical figure Salah al-Din (better known as Saladin), the...
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Tariq Ali, Author Arcadia Books $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-900850-10-0
Germany may be reunified, but the life of former East German dissident Vladimir Meyer has fallen apart. His wife has deserted him. He has been fired from his university for being a Marxist. His son, Karl, is now a moderate, up-and-coming Social...
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Tariq Ali, Author Verso $23.95 (275p) ISBN 978-1-84467-611-8
Completing his Islam Quintet, which began in 15th century Moorish Spain, British-Pakistani writer, filmmaker and activist Ali (A Sultan in Palermo) lands readers in the turbulent political landscape of recent decades. The central characters start as
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Tariq Ali, Author Seagull Books $24.95 (254p) ISBN 978-1-905422-65-4
A writer, filmmaker and activist, Ali (Bush in Babylon) was present at one of the biggest financial scandals in history, the 1991 demise of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI, widely referred to as the Bank of Crooks and Cheats...
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Tariq Ali, Author Verso $11 (104p) ISBN 978-1-84467-545-6
Leftists who think Bush is bad should get a load of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as pilloried in this lively polemic. British writer, filmmaker and activist Ali (The Clash of Fundamentalisms) calls Blair a liar, an authoritarian and a ""hypermi
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Tariq Ali, Author Verso $23 (274p) ISBN 978-1-85984-764-0
The Ottoman Empire, known as the ""sick man of Europe"" in the 19th century, continues its slow, steady decline in the summer of 1899 as elderly Iskander Pasha (a descendant of a sultan's favorite courtier) and his well-born family gather at their...
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Tariq Ali, Author Random House (UK) $23.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-7011-3394-8
Distinguished radical historian Ali ( Revolution from Above ) takes as the subject of his first novel the impact on the left of recent events in Eastern Europe. His lighthearted approach to a world congress of Trotskyists, convened to reassess their
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