
Tariq Ali (Punjabi, Urdu: طارق علی) is a British-Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and regularly contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He is the author of several books, including Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1991), Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope (2006), Conversations with Edward Said (2005), Bush in Babylon (2003), and Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002), A Banker for All Seasons (2007) and the recently published The Duel (2008).
Series
Books

Conversations with Edward Said
2005

In Defense of Julian Assange
2019

Rough Music
Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror
2006

Trotsky for Beginners
1980

Speaking of Empire and Resistance
Tariq Ali in Conversation with David Barsamian
2005

The Trials of Spinoza
2011

The Duel
Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power
2008

Winston Churchill
His Times, His Crimes
2022

The Clash of Fundamentalisms
Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
2002

The Stone Woman
A Novel
2000

Night of the Golden Butterfly
2010

Corbyn and the Future of Labour
A Verso Report
2023

Banker for All Seasons
Bank of Crooks and Cheats Inc.
2007

The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom
and Other Essays
2009

1968
Marching in the Streets
1998

The Leopard and the Fox
A Pakistani Tragedy
2006

A Sultan in Palermo
1979

Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
1992

The Stalinist Legacy
Its Impact on Twentieth Century World Politics
1985

The Book of Saladin
1998

Kashmir
The Case for Freedom
2011

The Obama Syndrome
Surrender at Home, War Abroad
2010

The Dilemmas of Lenin
Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution
2017

Redemption
1990

Fear of Mirrors
1998

The Extreme Centre
A Warning
2015

Street Fighting Years
An Autobiography of the Sixties
1987

Pirates of the Caribbean
Axis of Hope
2006

Can Pakistan Survive?
The Death of a State
1983

An Indian Dynasty
1985

The Idea of Communism
2009

Uprising in Pakistan
How to Bring Down a Dictatorship
2018

The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan
A Chronicle Foretold
2021

Bush in Babylon
The Recolonisation of Iraq
2003