Tariq Ali

Person · Open Library

Born

21 October 1943

Works

66

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

Japan

Active from

1985

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

188

Total plays

499

Tariq Ali (Punjabi, Urdu: طارق علی), (born 21 October 1943), is a British Pakistani military historian, novelist, journalist, filmmaker, public intellectual, political campaigner, activist, and commentator. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and regularly contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He is the author of several books, including Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1991) <a href="https://www.last.f

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection

   · 2016 · cited 40,202x

2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,955x

3. YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger

   · 2017 · cited 14,959x

4. Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation

   · 2010 · cited 13,967x

5. Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq

   · 2008 · cited 11,970x

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Quotes

• “Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception.”
• “Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.”
• “For all their incoherence and senseless rage, their message is attractive to those layers of the population who yearn for some order in their lives. If the fanatics promise to feed them and educate their children they are prepared to forgo the delights of CNN and BBC World.”
• “The government of the US has no moral authority to elect itself as the judge over human rights in Cuba, where there has not been a single case of disappearance, torture or extra-judicial execution since 1959, and where despite the economic blockade, there are levels of health, education and culture that are internationally recognised.”
• “Torture, encouraged from above, became a fact of life [in occupied Iraq]. Perhaps some good liberal apologist for Blair will soon explain how democratic torture is much nicer than authoritarian torture.”
• “We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1943-10-21 ) 21 October 1943 (age 82) , Lahore , Punjab , British India

Occupation

Political activist, Writer, Novelist

Alma mater

Exeter College, Oxford , Government College University, Lahore

Genre

Geopolitics , History, Marxism , Postcolonialism

Literary movement

New Left

Spouse

Susan Watkins

Parents

Mazhar Ali Khan and Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan

Relatives

Sikandar Hayat Khan (maternal grandfather)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Tariq

Gender

male

Citizenship

British Raj

Place of birth

Lahore

Mother

Tahira Mazhar Ali

Occupation

producer

Educated at

University of the Punjab

Languages spoken

Urdu

Native language

Urdu

Religion

atheism

Official website

www.tariqali.org

Image

Tariq Ali.jpg

Work location

Pakistan

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