Tariq’s first novel,
Hand On The Sun, was published by
Penguin, UK, 1983. This dealt with the experience of the resistance to racism by young migrant to the UK of the 1970s and 1980s. His second,
While There Is Light,,(
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/dec/27/featuresreviews.guardianreview10) was published by
Carcanet, UK, 2003. This was set against the backdrop of the case of Bradford 12, where 12 young men who defended their community were charged on conspiracy offences. Tariq was one of the leading defendants. All 12 were acquitted.
He has recently completed his third novel,
You’re Not Proper, published by Hope Road, London 2015. This is set in an English town seething with Islamophobia.
Before publication, this novel won the Francis Lincoln Diverse Voices award. It is the first book in trilogy.
Interview with Tariq:
The Song of Gulzarina (working title) is Tariq's fourth novel - a 70 year old Pakistani atheist who becomes a suicide bomber in Manchester as a protest against what is happening in Afghanistan.This is with Tariq’s agent.
In addition, Tariq has published a number of children’s books.
New novel The Second Coming: https://darajapress.com/publication/the-second-coming
Review Second Coming: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/15/the-english-beast-awakens-a-warning-from-the-second-coming/
Review Second Coming: https://www.newarab.com/features/unpacking-fascism-islamophobia-and-empire-second-coming
Republication of Tariq's first novel, Hand On The Sun, originally published by Penguin in 1083: https://darajapress.com/publication/hand-on-the-sun
Forthcoming 2025, novel, Sing To The Western Wind: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775565/sing-to-the-western-wind-by-tariq-mehmood/
Forthcoming 2025, Lines Of Fire, Non Fiction, American University Of Beirut Press and Daraja Press, https://darajapress.com/publication/bandung-afro-asian-poetry-that-changed-the-world
Forthcoming, 2025, British Film Institute supported Feature Documentary on the Bradford 12. a case in which Tariq was a central defendant in 1982
Tariqs Interviews: Bradford 12 Part I : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct4r37 & Part 2: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct4qnp
Interview with Tariq on the Asian Youth Movements in Britian of the 1970s and 1980s/ Works class history there are two links here, along with a transcript:
https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e28-29-asian-youth-movements-in-bradford/
Some recent articles on the rise of the far right in UK- https://www.newarab.com/opinion/stop-far-right-uk-left-must-confront-racism-its-roots and 2 - https://www.newarab.com/opinion/rise-uk-far-right-pending-pogroms-or-passing-wave
He is also a filmmaker. He is the co-director of the award-winning documentary film
Injustice, which deals with deaths in British police custody and which the police have successfully stopped being broadcast on television in the UK:
https://vimeo.com/34633260
The Lotus Project:
Courses he has taught include:
ENGL 257C Visual Culture:Poetry & Film
ENGL 249 Fiction Writing
ENGL 243 Post-Colonial Literature
ENGL 243 S.T:Southern Literatures of Resistance English
ENGL 236 Introduction to Creative Writing)
ENGL 219 Film as Text