New Statesman -

Spiritual awakening

William Dalrymple — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:06:57 GMT

Globalisation has been good for gods in the Indian subcontinent. As the region has remade itself, it has grown more devout, and its religions are becoming ever more entangled with politics

Pakistan reborn?

William Dalrymple — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Confounding all predictions, the Pakistani people have clearly demonstrated that they want to choose their own rulers and decide their own future. There is a consensus from Lahore to Karachi

Copts & Brothers

William Dalrymple — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT

A surprising dialogue between the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's Coptic Christians suggests a new way of working with Islamist parties.

How the east was won

William Dalrymple — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMT

The British empire was built not simply on greed, cruelty and oppression - but on surprising exchanges and encounters. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: a Woman in World History Linda Colley Harper Press, 400pp, �25

Schools of hope

William Dalrymple — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT

With the virtual collapse of government schools, many parents have to depend on Wahhabi-funded madrasas. But a new foundation aims to provide quality, secular, subsidised education. It deserves our support

Unearthing history

William Dalrymple — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT

City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek lives in Roman Egypt Peter Parsons Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 320pp, �25 ISBN 0297645889

The last Mughal and a clash of civilisations

William Dalrymple — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT

East and west face each other across a divide that some call a religious war. Suicide jihadis take what they see as defensive action and innocent people are killed. But this is 1857. William Dalrymple on lessons from the Raj for the neo-cons

The many and the happy few

William Dalrymple — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Syria - Politically repressive, the minority Alawite rulers have encouraged a surprising religious tolerance

India - Introduction

William Dalrymple — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT

NS Christmas Essay - 'Scholars are only now beginning to realise the extent to which the Mughal emperors adopted what most would assume to be outrightly Christian devotions'

William Dalrymple — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT

In the year that Islamist terrorism finally reached London, it is important to emphasise that Christianity and Islam are not nearly so far apart as both Bin Laden and the neo-cons would like us to believe