Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Tariq Ali
Born: October 21, 1943 (age 81)
Bio: 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 contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books.
Known for:
- Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (1992)
- The Book of Saladin (1998)
- The Clash of Fundamentalisms (2002)
- A Sultan in Palermo (2005)