Rachel Aspden
Articles by rachel aspden
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Arts & Culture
A lost world
- 17 July 2008
Songs from 1920s Baghdad bring us a diverse city where the streets and nightclubs were full of music
Art
Imagining the east
- 29 May 2008
Once dismissed as imperialist fantasies about the Muslim world, British orientalist paintings are once again becoming popular. Their exotic visions tell us much about the social and cultural history of Victorian Britain
Politics
Forgotten Burma
- 01 May 2008
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Burma is back in the news in the wake of the terrible cyclone. Ahead of this tragedy Rachel Aspden visited the forgotten Burmese resistance. Here is her report.
Books
The lives of others
- 17 April 2008
Playing Cards in Cairo: Mint Tea, Tarneeb and Tales of the City
Hugh Miles Abacus, 288pp, £10.99
Arts & Culture
Eastern eyes
- 14 February 2008
Female film-makers across the Middle East are hindered by state censorship and competition from Hollywood, yet the power and the variety of their work shine through
Books
What you'll be reading in 2008
- 13 December 2007
From Bill Emmott via Will Self to the revamped 007
Education
All that glitters
- 06 December 2007
The O2's exhibition of artefacts from ancient Egypt has been dismissed as "tacky" and "rapacious". The critics are wrong
Music
The history boys
- 01 November 2007
Algeria's El Gusto hark back to a golden age of religious tolerance
Music
Desert sounds
- 04 October 2007
The Bedouin Jerry Can Band, raucous rock stars of the Sinai, are on a mission to share their extraordinary music with the outside world.
