The bestselling history of the resistance in Iraq that vitalized the antiwar movement
TARIQ ALI is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics--including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome--as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.
The charm of stylish dissent: less Chomsky, more poetry. Empires
may come and go but Tariq Ali, the rebel who has lost the streets
but gained the ghettos, is here to stay, to fight on ... Buy his
spirit.
*India Today*
Caustic warnings run through Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of
Iraq by Tariq Ali ... who criticises pro-American academic and
media apologists for stressing that Bush's policies are 'the only
way to stabilise the world' ... undeniably passionate.
*Financial Times*
A precious jewel of a book.
*Il Manifesto, Rome*
Hard facts, sharp political analysis and literary insertions that
evoke the richness of Arab culture ... unlikely to soothe the
middle-class nerves of our harmony-seeking 'Gutmenschen.'
*Suddeutsche Zeitung*
Tariq Ali ... has poured all his caustic verve and literary talent
into this essay on the modern history of Iraq. Drawing on the work
of great Arab historians, but also on personal testimony and the
works of different Iraqi poets, he reconstitutes the principal
moments of a tragic history-a pitiless dissection of the lies used
by the Anglo-American leaders to legitimate their recent imperial
expedition in Iraq.
*Le Monde Diplomatique*
A strikingly erudite tour of Iraqi and Middle Eastern history and,
at points, a survey of the work of secular-nationalist Arabic poets
such as the Syrian Nizar Qabbani and the Iraqi exile Mudhaffar
al-Nawab.
*Philadelphia City Paper*
An often compelling insider's perspective-with some valuable
insights into the sensitivities that explain why the occupying
coalition in Iraq is not being treated as a savior.
*New York Times Book Review*
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