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Mon. May. 24, 2004
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Art & Culture > Media > Journalism
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Tariq Ali: Discussing Empires and Resistance
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The Pakistani intellectual and activist Tariq Ali gave two lectures at the Oriental Hall at the American University in Cairo (AUC) last week. The first lecture was entitled "Literature and Market Realism" and the second was "Empires and Resistance". In both lectures Ali was like a firebrand brightly shining. He satirically attacked the American Hegemony, analyzed the current situation, and defined and criticized the potential threats according to the American administrative and what he described as "State Department Intellectuals". Ali focused on the resistance in Iraq, describing it as very sophisticated.
Tariq Ali was born in Lahore in 1943 and rose to prominence with the student movement of the 1960s. After graduating from Oxford University he headed the Vietnam solidarity campaign. He is on the board of the" New Left Review". In the 1980s he regularly produced programs for channel 4 in the UK through his independent production company "Bandung".
He has written over a dozen books on world history and politics and five novels like "The Stone Woman, The Book of Saladin, Fear of Mirrors and Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree.
His most famous books are "Bush in Babylon and The Clash of Fundamentalisms.
- Here, you can listen to Ali's lecture entitled "Empires and Resistance" [1] [2]
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Fairoz Mustafa is a journalist based in Cairo, Egypt.
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