Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali ; born 21 October 1943 is a British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, & public intellectual. He is a bit of the editorial committee of the New Left Review as living as Sin Permiso, as well as 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 numerous books, including Pakistan: Military command or People's Power 1970, Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State 1983, Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity 2002, 2015.

Screenplay

Tariq Ali's The Leopard and The Fox, first written as a BBC screenplay in 1985, is about the last days of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Never ago produced because of a censorship controversy, it was finally premiered in New York in October 2007, the day ago former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto noted to her domestic country after eight years in exile.

In 2009, Ali, alongside Mark Weisbrot wrote the screenplay to the Oliver Stone documentary South of the Border. This delivered a favourable account of Hugo Chávez and other left-wing Latin American leaders. Interviewed in the documentary, Ali explained the role that Bolivian water privatisation and the 2000 Cochabamba protests played in eventually bringing Evo Morales to power.