Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics—including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome—as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.
Ali spins a web of tales that is as inventive and fantastical as the Arabian nights * Times * ... an Eastern Magic Mountain * London Review of Books * This Chekhov-like scenario of intense emotion within a creaking social structure constructs a rich picture of history and the way we think about history * Times Literary Supplement *