Keynote Speech by Tariq Ali

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Keynote speech delivered by writer and political theorist Tariq Ali during the inaugural weekend of the Lahore Biennale.
Location: National College of Arts (NCA), Mall Road

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Tariq Ali was born in Lahore in 1943, a city which was still under British colonial rule before becoming part of Pakistan in 1947. He studied Politics and Philosophy at Oxford and was the first Pakistani elected as President of the Oxford University Student Union. Since 1968 he has been a contributing editor to the New Left Review one of the most important independent newspapers of the international Left. Ali also emerged as a filmmaker and writer, whose themes focused continuously on the conflict between Western societies and his own Islamic homeland. Ali publishes articles on the current political situation in the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America in numerous international publications, among them the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, taz, Financial Times and The Guardian. The author lives in London.

Tariq Ali was born in Lahore in 1943, a city which was still under British colonial rule before becoming part of Pakistan in 1947. He studied Politics and Philosophy at Oxford and was the first Pakistani elected as President of the Oxford University Student Union. Since 1968 he has been a contributing editor to the New Left Review one of the most important independent newspapers of the international Left. Ali also emerged as a filmmaker and writer, whose themes focused continuously on the conflict between Western societies and his own Islamic homeland. Ali publishes articles on the current political situation in the Middle East, South Asia and Latin America in numerous international publications, among them the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, taz, Financial Times and The Guardian. The author lives in London.

Location: National College of Arts (NCA)

Date: January 27, 2020

To view the speech, please visit: Keynote speech by Tariq Ali