Tariq Ali (طارق علی), born 21 October 1943, is a British Pakistani writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, political activist, and public intellectual. He has written the Islam Quintet.
He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He read PPE at Exeter College, Oxford.
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