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  1. In the Belly of the Dancer (1990 Video)

    Director
    Zoe Hardy; Anjana Patel
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Looks at belly dancing in Cairo, both in is pure form called ‘raqs sharqi’ and its bastardised modern version. Features dancer Suraya Hilal.

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  2. Aparna Sen (1990 Video)

    Director
    Dilip Varma
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Film & television production; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Indian actress Aparna Sen talks from Calcutta about her transition to direction, the inspiration for her films and the funding of her work.

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  3. Final Solution, The: Islam in Spain (1992 Video)

    Director
    Christopher Spencer
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Examines Islamic culture in Spain and asks whether European culture has Arabic roots. Fetures Spanish novelist Juan Goytisolo.

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  4. Art of Komar and Melamid, The (1992 Video)

    Director
    Peter Wollen
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1993 price: £10.00

    Follows two unorthodox Russian artists, from their first meeting in a Mosecow morgue to the painting of their early materpiece, ‘Biography of Our Contemporary’, to their arrival in New York.

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  5. African King, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Nigel Evans
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    About the illegal trade in Third-World art treasures, which is sustained by a large and complex international network of smugglers and dealers. Follows a trail of stolen 10th-17th century terracotta statues...

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  6. Cities of Salt (1992 Video)

    Director
    Patrick Matthews
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Abdulrahman Munif is one of the few contemporary Arabic prose writers whose works have been translated in the west. Munif and his translator Peter Theroux are interviewed.

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  7. Stories of Memory and Fire (1992 Video)

    Director
    Alexandra Anderson
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    English language and literature; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1992 sale: £10.00

    A protrait of Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano in which he discusses his understanding of the Indian, African and European roots of contemporary Latin American culture.

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  8. Carlo Levi Stopped Here (1992 Video)

    Director
    Virginia Heath
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Distribution
    Sale (Clips and Footage), Videocassette. VHS. col. 45 min.

    Considers the relationship between the industrialised north of Italy and the underdeveloped south, as expressed in the paintings of Carlo Levi, author of ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’.

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  9. Citizen Locke (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Drama; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

    Story of John Locke, whose abstract ruminations on knowledge developed into concepts which justified and helped to bring about a political revolution. Locke spent most of his life denying authorship of his...

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  10. Life of Dissent, A: Edward and Dorothy Thompson (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 38 min.

    Profile of the dissident historians Edward and Dorohy Thompson, which traces the experience of a generation shaped by the struggle against fascism and the Cold War.

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