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Book of Saladin

By: Ali, Tariq

Price: $5.00

Publisher: VERSO: Aug-11

Seller ID: 155729

ISBN: 1859842313

Binding: Unknown

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The Book of Saladin is the fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem, as dictated to a Jewish scribe, Ibn Yakub. Saladin grants Ibn Yakub permission to talk to his wife and retainers so that he might present a full portrait in the Sultan's memoirs. A series of interconnected stories follows, tales brimming over with warmth, earthy humor and passions in which ideals clash with realities and dreams are confounded by desires.

At the heart of the novel is an affecting love affair between the Sultan's favored wife, Jamila, and the beautiful Halina, a later addition ...
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Street Fighting Years: an autobiography of the sixties

By: Ali, Tariq

Price: $6.00

Publisher: VERSO: Dec-12

Seller ID: 219832

ISBN: 1844670295

Binding: Trade Paperback

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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 and Bolivia, encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, and Mick Jagger.

Ali captures the mood and energy of those years as he tracks the growing significance of the nascent protest movement.

This edition includes a new introduction, as well as the famous interview conducted by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1971.
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Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, jihads and Modernity

By: Ali, Tariq

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Publisher: VERSO: Oct-14

Seller ID: 243048

ISBN: 185984457X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions, generated an enormous volume of commentary. The inviolability of the American mainland, breached for the first time since 1812, led to extravagant proclamations by the pundits. It was a new world-historical turning point. The 21st century, once greeted triumphantly as marking the dawn of a worldwide neo-liberal civilization, suddenly became menaced. The choice presented from the White House and its supporters was to stand shoulder-to-shoulder against terrorism or be damned.

Tariq ...
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On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation

By: Oliver Stone,Tariq Ali

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Haymarket Books: Nov-11

Seller ID: 411679

ISBN: 1608461491

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In working together on two challenging new documentaries--South of the Border and the forthcoming The Untold History of the United States series for Showtime--filmmaker Oliver Stone engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq Ali in a probing, hard-hitting conversation on
the politics of history.

Their dialogue brings to light a number of forgotten--or deliberately buried--episodes of American history, from the US intervention against the Russian Revolution and the dynamic radicalism of the
Industrial Workers of the World to Henry Wallace's sidelining by Democratic Party ma...
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Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution

By: Tariq, Ali

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Publisher: VERSO:

Seller ID: 412527

ISBN: 1786631113

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The secret life of the man who reshaped Russia

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and political achievements. But his legacy has been lost in misinterpretation; he is worshipped but rarely read.

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali explores the two major influences on Lenin's thought--the turbulent history of Tsarist Russia and the birth of the international ...
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Author:Ali, Tariq

Book of Saladin

Street Fighting Years: an autobiography of the sixties

Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, jihads and Modernity

On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation

Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution