Tariq Ali

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1. Tariq Ali

   Author of The Book of Saladin, Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties, Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali

2. Noam Chomsky

   Author of Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, American Power and the New Mandarins

3. Edward W. Said

   Author of Orientalism, Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World, The Question of Palestine

4. Mike Davis

   Author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, Dead Cities: And Other Tales

5. Amin Maalouf

   Author of Samarkand, Balthasar's Odyssey, The Gardens of Light

6. V. S. Naipaul

   Author of An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization, A Turn in the South

7. Naguib Mahfouz

   Author of Palace Walk, Midaq Alley, Arabian Nights and Days

8. Robert Fisk

   Author of The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East, Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War

9. Chalmers Johnson

   Author of Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic, Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

10. Orhan Pamuk

    Author of My Name is Red, The White Castle, The new life

11. Michael Hardt

    Author of Empire, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, Commonwealth

12. Eduardo Galeano

    Author of Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Genesis (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 1), Faces and Masks (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 2)

13. Amitav Ghosh

    Author of The Glass Palace, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Shadow Lines: A Novel

14. Arundhati Roy

    Author of An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, Power Politics, War Talk

15. David Harvey

    Author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism, The Limits to Capital, New Edition, Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development

16. Norman G. Finkelstein

    Author of The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, New Edition 2nd Edition, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, New and Revised Edition

17. Richard Appignanesi

    Author of Freud for Beginners, Lenin for Beginners, Introducing Learning & Memory (Introducing (Icon))

18. E. J. Hobsbawm

    Author of The Age of Empire: 1875-1914, Bandits, Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries

19. Ahmed Rashid

    Author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Descent into Chaos

20. William Blum

    Author of Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II-Updated Through 2003