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Tariq Mehmood

Tariq Mehmood

Tariq Mehmood is an award-winning novelist and filmmaker. He was one of the leading defendants in the case of the Bradford 12 in 1981. He co-directed Injustice, the ground-breaking film into deaths in British Police Custody and writer of its follow-on, Ultraviolence. He is currently making a film on the Bradford 12. He wrote his first novel awaiting trial: Hand On The Sun, Penguin 1983. He has since written a number of novels, the latest being You’re Not here, Daraja 2018. He is an Associate Professor at the American University Of Beirut, Lebanon.

To stop far-right, the UK Left must confront racism at its roots

The Left's inability to organise white working-class communities and the UK's imperial policies have helped fuel far-right pogroms, writes Tariq Mehmood.

05 November, 2024

The rise of the UK far-right: Pending pogroms or a passing wave?

Years of state-sponsored Islamophobia have stirred the UK's racist underbelly, which reminds Tariq Mehmood of the 70s and the dangerous era of Paki bashing.

25 September, 2024

When terrorism ghosts won’t lie to rest

Do UK counter-terrorism officers really "randomly" pull people up at airports? Writer Tariq Mehmood, also one of the Bradford 12, shares a recent experience at Manchester airport that puts this question under the spotlight.

25 August, 2023

The Tories are destroying our NHS

Personal stories: Tariq Mehmood paints a harrowing picture of the realities of the NHS under a Tory government whose divestments and neglect are actively destroying it and detrimentally impacting the masses.

14 October, 2022