Tariq Ali
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| Born | 21 October 1943 Lahore, Punjab, British India |
| Occupation | Political activist Historian Novelist |
| Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford, Government College University, Lahore |
| Genre | Geopolitics History Marxism Postcolonialism |
| Literary movement | New Left |
| Spouse | Susan Watkins |
| Children | 3 |
Tariq Ali (/ˈtærɪk ˈæli/;Urdu: طارق علی; born 21 October 1943) is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford.
He is the author of many books, including Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970), Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1983), Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002), Bush in Babylon (2003), Conversations with Edward Said (2005), Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis Of Hope (2006), The Duel (2008), The Obama Syndrome (2010), and The Extreme Centre: A Warning (2015).