Tariq Ali | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union
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Published 2017-07-31
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Tariq Ali is a British-Pakistani writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, political activist, and public intellectual. 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.
He is the author of several books, including Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970), Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1983), Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002), Bush in Babylon (2003), Conversations with Edward Said (2005), Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope (2006), A Banker for All Seasons (2007), The Duel (2008), The Obama Syndrome (2010), and The Extreme Centre: A Warning (2015).
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All Comments (21)
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Always a pleasure to listen to Tariq Ali. Such an erudite man.
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It's impossible to get tired of listening to Tariq.
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The whole lecture was felt as i watched a 5 minute clip!! What an amazing guy!
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I'll just ignore the dislikes and enjoy the lecture and Tariq's moral integrity :)
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One of the best speeches hopefully will get to the youth. Very intelligent man.
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Brilliant person . Learnt a lot from tariq
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always nice to hear such edifying address.
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Very insightful!. Every future decent leader should attend Tariq's speech.
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It is very soothing & educating to hear Tariq saheb of human truths for survival of races & humanity,Advocate Bankim Kulshrestha delhi India
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A good speech! Thoughtful, erudite and, best of all, optimistic.
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Great lecture! Insightful and well delivered.
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fantastic talk and Q&A! Tariq Ali is simply brilliant! if only more people read him, his publications and his Telesur program, then dear lordy you'd see quite a different electoral behaviours hehe! :)
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Beautifully said
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What he said then still relevant today!!
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He is a super knowledge man. Beautiful
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always enjoy his lectures wonderful
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You can fulfil a man's NEED but not his Greed.
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Thank you for your educational speech. We fully appreciate your political knowledge. Long lives Tarik Ali.
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OMG! I am enlightened today.
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Tariq Ali is an amazing intellectual who is completely ignored by the Western mainstream media.
