Tarek Fatah

Tarek Fatah is a journalist and novelist, a Pakistani-Canadian. He was born in Karachi, Sindh Province, Pakistan, on November 20, 1949. Fatah was born into a Punjabi family that had relocated from Bombay to Karachi after India's 1947 partition. He earned a biochemistry degree from the University of Karachi and served as a leftist student leader in the 1960s and 1970s. His wife is Nargis Fatah, and they have two daughters, namely Natasha and Nazia. Tarek joined the 'Karachi Sun' news channel in 1970 as a reporter. Because of his political activity, he was charged with sedition and forbidden from journalism by the Zia-ul Haq administration in 1977.

He moved from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia before settling in Canada in 1987. He hosted Muslim Chronicle, a weekly Toronto-based current affairs discussion shows on "CTS" and "VisionTV", focusing on the Muslim community, from 1996 till 2006. He worked as a broadcaster for CFRB Newstalk 1010 in Toronto from 2009 to 2015 and as a regular commentator on the John Moore Morning Show. Tarek has been a regular contributor to the Toronto Sun since 2012 and a frequent commentator on the Sun News Network. If we look at his political career, it could be seen that Tarek had been a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) and campaigned unsuccessfully as the party's candidate in Scarborough North in the 1995 provincial elections.

He worked for Howard Hampton, the head of the Ontario New Democratic Party. He slammed the federal New Democratic Party at a press conference on October 2, 2008. He claimed to be a lifelong social democrat who had supported the NDP for 17 years but could no longer be associated with it. After the September 11 attacks, Tarek became one of the founding members of the Muslim Canadian Congress, serving as its communications director and spokesperson until 2006. For his book "The Jew Is Not My Enemy," published in 2010, he had got the "Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Book Award in Politics and History." He also won the "Donner Prize" in 2009 for his book "Chasing a Mirage."