Tariq Ali is a British Pakistani writer, journalist, and filmmaker. 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 Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power, Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State, Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope, Conversations with Edward Said, Bush in Babylon, and Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity, A Banker for All Seasons, The Duel and his most recent book, The Obama Syndrome. 

October 21st, 1943 in Lahore (Age 81)