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Tariq Ali
A new memoir from renowned political activist and author of Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties
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The Making of a Young Revolutionary
The revolutionary world leader's extraordinary life, published for the centenary of Lenin's death
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Victor G Kiernan
New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare
On Ali, together with Khruangbin, Vieux Farka Touré pays homage to his legendary father by recreating some of his most resonant work, putting new twists on it while maintaining the…
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War rages in the Balkans. While NATO bombs Serbia, the Kosovan Albanians are driven out of their homes. Europe is divided. In homes everywhere, people debate the rights and wrongs…
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Howard Brenton,Tariq Ali,Ali Tariq
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George Aberigh-MacKay
Twenty-One Days in India, or, the Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.; and, the Teapot Series, is a classical book and has been considered important throughout the human history. So…
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a politically charged after-dinner entertainment play looking at the world of politicians. Also includes ‘The Stigma Manifesto’.
Ebtisam Aly Hussein
This book takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism. Ebtisam…
Part of the Islam Quintet series, this novel deals with the Muslim experience in China. It moves between the cities of the twenty-first century, from Lahore to London, from Paris…
Tariq Jordan
Having been accused of rioting, Ali awaits his fate in an Israeli interrogation room. But when an old lover steps in to defend him, the two are forced to confront…
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Murder in high places, political marriage and the complications of party loyalty in this sharp satire.
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Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world’s grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and…
The year is 1153. The Normans are ruling Siqqiliya, but Arab culture and language dominate the island and the court. Sultan Rujari surrounds himself with Muslim intellectuals, several concubines, and…
Shows how Chavez’s views have polarized Latin America and examines the hostility directed against his administration. This work discusses the enormous influence of Fidel Castro on both Chavez and Evo…
Presents essays on the giants of world literature that explore the links between literature, history and politics. This title discusses common themes as well as polarities, impressions and re-readings, contextualizing…
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali paints an illuminating portrait of Lenin
A prescient dissection of Obama’s overseas escalation and domestic retreat, fully updated.
A brilliant family saga stretching from the Russian Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union
Harold Pinter, Edward Said, Oskar Lafontaine, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and other distinguished dissidents explain their opposition to NATO’s war in the Balkans.
The radical colonels, courageous communists and burnt-out Ba'athists failed to establish a stable and just democratic republic, thus enabling a return visit by imperialism.
Vladimir Meyer is a former dissident leader, who refuses to renounce his beliefs and is sacked by the authoritites. For him, his father’s generation has failed him. Meyer decides to…
During the late 70s and 80s, the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) became a global corporate empire with former US Presidents, ex-British Prime Ministers and a range of…
Set in 12th-century Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem, this is the fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem. It is the second in a series of historical novels depicting…
In this new edition of his memoirs, Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that takes us from Paris and Prague to Hanoi…
The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chavez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy. This work shows how Chavez’s views…
In this wide-ranging book Ali challenges assumptions on both sides, arguing that Islamic civilization has an important role in Western modernity, and that what we have experienced with the rise…
The final volume in Tariq Ali’s acclaimed cycle of historical novels.
Britain’s leading radical delivers an eviscerating attack on the indistinguishable political elite of the UK.
Tariq Ali, Isaac Deutscher, Ernest Mandel, and others analyze the nature of Stalinism, and its continuing impact on world politics.
A family saga during the turbulent period following seven centuries of Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula.
The life and crimes of the last, great Imperialist
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The secret life of the man who reshaped Russia
This book is the third novel of Ali’s Islam quartet, and is the fictional history of the Pasha family, which mirrors the turbulence and growing degeneration of the Empire. Like…
Pakistan 1968: the history of a revolution
Britain’s leading radical updates his attack on the failures of the political centre ground
One of the world’s best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement
The story of NATO’s disastrous occupation of Afghanistan, and how it repeated the mistakes of the Soviet occupation which preceded it
The BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected prime minister…
November 9, 2009, will mark twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signalled the beginning of the end of Communism in the former Soviet…
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This volume, which accompanies an exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York, explores a wide range of global images of American society and culture, illuminating the powerful stereotypes that…
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Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) is considered one of the great rationalist thinkers of the seventeenth century. This title contextualizes Spinoza’s philosophy by linking it to the turbulent politics of the period…
