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Like Tariq Ali’s previous work, The Clash of Fundamentalisms, this book presents a magnificent cultural and political history of Iraqi resistance against empires old and new. Ali’s substantial new Postscript, ‘Blood Meridian: Year One of the Occupation’, authoritatively dismantles the lies of favourite house Arabs such as Found Ajami, shatters masks of UN compliance with the occupation, andshines bright light both on the Anglo-American attempts to ...
The fourth novel in Tariq Ali’s Islam Quintet is set in medieval Palermo, a Muslim city rivaling Baghdad and Cordoba in size and splendour. The year is 1153. The Normans are ruling Siqqiliya, but Arab culture and language dominate the island and the court. Sultan Rujari (King Roger) surrounds himself with Muslim intellectuals, several concubines, and an administration presided over by gifted eunuchs. The bishops, expecting to be at the pinnacle of power, are ...
Each year, when the weather in Istanbul becomes unbearable, the family of Iskender Rasha, a retired ottoman notable, retires to its summer palace overlooking the sea of Marmara. It is 1899 and the last great Islamic empire is in serlous trouble. A former tutor poses a question which the family has been refusing to confront for almost a century: ‘Your Ottoman Empire is like a drunken prostitute, neither knowing nor caring who will take her next. Do I exaggerate, ...
Tariq Ali's Latest novel is a rich and teeming chronicle set in Twelfth-Century Cairo, Damaseus and Jerusalem. The Book of Saladini s the fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kardish literator of Jerusalem, as dictated to a Jewish scribe, Ibn Yakum, Saladin grants Ibn Yakub ermission to talk to his wife and retainers so that he might portray a complete picture of him in his memoirs. A series of interconnected stories follow, tales brimming over with warmth, earthy ...
Tariq Ali tells us the story of the fall of Granada by narrating a family saga of those who tried to survive after the collapse of their world. Particularly deft of evoking what life must have been like for those doomed inhabitants, besieged on till Sides by an intolerant Christendom. This is a novel that has something to say and says it well. Guardian Tariq Ali captures the humanity and splendour of Muslim Spain… an enthralling story, unraveled with thrift and ...
In this new edition of his sixties’ memoirs. Tariq ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that moves between London, Paris and Berlin, as well as Vietnam and Bolivia, encountering along the way Malcom X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, John Lenno, oko Ono, enry Kissinger and Mick Jagger. Ali captures the mood of those years with a novelist’s lightness of touch as he tracks the growing significance of the nascent protest movement. ...
A revolution is moving across Latin America.Since 1988, the Bolivian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chavez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy. While Chavez’s radical social-democratic reforms have brought him worldwide acclaim among the poor, he has attracted intense hostility from Venezuelan elites and Western governments.Drawing on first-hand experience of Venezuela and meetings with ...