Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali is a Pakistani-British writer, journalist, and filmmaker. Born in Lahore in 1943, he studied at Exeter College, Oxford. He is on the editorial committee for New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and writes for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and CounterPunch. He has authored numerous books, among them Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970), Clash of Fundamentalisms (2002), and Bush in Babylon (2003). His screenplay The Leopard and the Fox, written for the BBC in 1985, concerns the final period of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's life and was long unproduced due to a censorship controversy before its New York premiere in October 2007. He followed it with A Banker for All Seasons (2007) and The Assassination: Who Killed Indira G? (2008). In 2009 he co-wrote, with Mark Weisbrot, the screenplay for Oliver Stone's documentary South of the Border (2009).