This fourth novel in Tariq Ali's "Islam Quintet" is set in medieval Palermo, a Muslim city rivaling Baghdad and Cordoba in size and splendor. The year is 1153. The Normans are ruling Siqqiliya, but Arab culture and language dominate the island and the court. Sultan Rujari (King Roger) surrounds hims[...]

What has really changed since Bush left the White House? Very little, argues Tariq Ali, apart from the mood music. The hopes aroused during Obama's election campaign have rapidly receded-the honeymoon has been short. Following the financial crisis, the reform president bailed out Wall Street without[...]

One in 70 children are admitted to paediatric intensive care (PIC) at some time during childhood. Most paediatric junior doctors will rotate through PIC, and will be involved in organising acute intensive care for critically ill children. The range of children and their illnesses going through PIC i[...]

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.[...]

In this timely reissue of this essential collection, Ralph Miliband sets out the domain of the struggle. From conflicts within the state to the world capitalist system, Miliband's acute insight and clarity of argument makes this a key text in postwar socialist thought. The collection includes essent[...]

A study of the revolutionary process throughout Latin America as a challenge to the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy focuses on the radical social democratic reforms of Venezuala's Hugo Chvez, the influence of Castro on both Chvez and Bolivia's Evo Morales, the polarization of Latin [...]

Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism, he was also a superb journalist, politician and historian. In these brand-new editions of Marx s Political Writings we are able to see the depth and range of his mature work from 1848 through to the end of his life, from The Communist Manifest[...]

Completing an epic panorama that began in fifteenth-century Moorish Spain, Night of the Golden Butterfly moves between the cities of the twentyfirst century, from Lahore to London, from Paris to Beijing. The narrator is rung one morning and reminded that he owes a debt of honor. The creditor is Moha[...]

The Stone Woman is the third novel of Tariq Ali's "Islam Quartet." Like its predecessors - Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree and The Book of Saladin - its power lies both in the story-telling and the challenge it poses to stereotyped images of life under Islam.[...]

"The Stone Woman" is the third novel of Tariq Ali's "Islam Quartet." Like its predecessors--"Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree" and "The Book of Saladin--"its power lies both in the story-telling and the challenge it poses to stereotyped images of life under Islam.[...]

Ørkenstormer er dramaet om korsfareren Richard Løvehjerte og den muslimske hærføreren Saladin som kjempet om Jerusalem i år 1191. De to møttes aldri ansikt til ansikt. I skuespillet gjør de det. Den religiøse og politiske konflikten som utspilte seg, har sin parallell i Jerusalem og verden i[...]

En skarp vidräkning med Obamas politik som president. Kriget i Afghanistan har trappats upp samtidigt som förhoppningarna om en mera rättvis och socialt progressiv politik på hemmaplan har kommit på skam.[...]