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For today’s show, Thursday host Allen Ruff is joined by historian and public intellectual Tariq Ali to discuss the latest in world politics and his new essay collection, The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan.
Tariq Ali is a political activist, journalist, historian, novelist, and filmmaker based in London. He is a longstanding member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, most recently Uprising in Pakistan: How to Bring Down a Dictatorship (Verso, 2018) and The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold (Verso, 2021).
Cover photo: Tariq Ali speaking at Subversive Festival 2013 in Zagreb from Wikimedia Commons
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For today’s show, Thursday host Allen Ruff is joined by historian and public intellectual Tariq Ali to discuss the latest in world politics and his new essay collection, The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan.
Tariq Ali is a political activist, journalist, historian, novelist, and filmmaker based in London. He is a longstanding member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, most recently Uprising in Pakistan: How to Bring Down a Dictatorship (Verso, 2018) and The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold (Verso, 2021).
Cover photo: Tariq Ali speaking at Subversive Festival 2013 in Zagreb from Wikimedia Commons
Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Douglas Haynes, Ali Muldrow, Carousel Bayrd, Allen Ruff, & Esty Dinur, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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