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educated at Oxford University, where he became
involved in student politics, in particular
with the movement against the war in Vietnam.
On graduating he led the Vietnam Solidarity
Campaign. He owned his own independent
television production company, Bandung, which
produced programs for Channel 4 in the UK
during the 1980s. He is a regular broadcaster
on BBC Radio and contributes articles and
journalism to magazines and newspapers
including The Guardian and the London Review
of Books. He is editorial director of London
publishers Verso and is on the board of the
New Left
Review, for whom he is also an editor. His
fiction includes a series of historical novels
about Islam: Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
(1992), The Book of Saladin (1998), The Stone
Woman (2000), A Sultan in Palermo (2005), and
Night of the Golden Butterfly (2010). These
five books are collectively known as 'The
Islam Quintet'. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 7px;
margin-right: 7px;"><span
style="font-family:trebuchet
ms,helvetica,sans-serif;">His non-fiction
includes 1968: Marching in the Streets (1998),
a social history of the 1960s; Conversations
with Edward Said (2005); Rough Music: Blair,
Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror (2005);
Speaking of Empire and Resistance(2005), which
takes the form of a series of conversations
with the author; and The Obama Syndrome
(2010). The Leopard and the Fox (2007) is the
script of a three-part TV series commissioned
by the BBC and later withdrawn, and includes
the background to the story. His books of
essays include The Clash of Fundamentalisms
(2002), and The Protocols of the Elders of
Sodom (2009). Tariq
Ali's latest book is The Extreme Centre: A
Warning (2015).</span></p>
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Benjamin</strong> is the co-founder of the
women-led peace group CODEPINK and the
co-founder of the human rights group Global
Exchange. She has been an advocate for social
justice for more than 40 years. Described as
"one of America's most committed -- and most
effective -- fighters for human rights" by New
York Newsday, and "one of the high profile
leaders of the peace movement" by the Los
Angeles Times, she was one of 1,000 exemplary
women from 140 countries nominated to receive
the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the
millions of women who do the essential work of
peace worldwide.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 7px;
margin-right: 7px;"><span
style="font-family:trebuchet
ms,helvetica,sans-serif;">She is the author of
eight books, including Drone Warfare: Killing
by Remote Control, and her articles appear
regularly in outlets such as The Huffington
Post, CommonDreams, Alternet, The Other Words,
and TeleSUR. Her forthcoming book is on Saudi
Arabia. </span></p>
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Times best sellers including Days of
Destruction, Days of Revolt that he co-wrote
with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. He is also a
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who was a
foreign correspondent for nearly two decades
in Latin America, The Middle East, Africa, the
Balkans and Europe, 15 of those years with The
New York Times. He writes a weekly column for
the online magazine Truthdig. He hosts a
weekly show, Days of Revolt, on TeleSur and
The Real News. Hedges other books include
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the
War on America, Empire of Illusion: The End of
Literacy and the Triumph
of Spectacle and Death of the Liberal Class
and his latest book Wages of Rebellion: The
Moral Imperative of Revolt. He was a National
Book Critics Circle finalist for his book War
Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He has
taught at Columbia University, New York
University, Princeton University and the
University of Toronto. He currently teaches
college credit courses through Rutgers
University to prisoners at a correctional
facility in New Jersey.</span></p>
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