Tariq Ali, editor of the New Left Review and author of Clash of Fundamentalisms, visits campus as the Sanford S. Elberg Lecturer in International Studies. His talk, "War, Empire, and Resistance," focuses on the current debate over the war in Iraq.

From Michael Watts’ introduction: Ali's life as a writer, broadcaster, and filmmaker has been that of a dissenter. Born in Pakistan in 1943, Ali left in the early 1960’s to study at Oxford University in England. While there, he became a central figure in the anti-Vietnam war movement, leading the infamous march on the American Embassy in London in 1968 and debating the likes of Henry Kissinger and Michael Stewart, the British Foreign Secretary. Anti-Arab propaganda used in the Gulf War of 1990 prompted him to explore why Islam had not undergone a Reformation, and why the Ottomans had been relatively untouched by the Enlightenment. His latest book, Clash of Fundamentalisms, investigates the post-September 11 "war on terror."
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Tariq Ali                       

59 minutes

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