Rachel Aspden

Articles by Rachel Aspden

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Philosophical party music

  • 04 June 2009

Rachel Aspden meets El Tanbura, an Egyptian group who are adapting folk traditions to the upheaval of their modern surroundings

Wolf Hall

  • 21 May 2009

The mother tongue

  • 23 April 2009

Things I’ve Been Silent About: Memories
Azar Nafisi
William Heinemann, 368pp, £17.99

The princes in the tower

  • 09 April 2009

The Music Room
William Fiennes
Picador, 224pp, £14.99­

War through women’s eyes

  • 12 March 2009

Female artists have charted wars throughout the 20th century, both at home and abroad, and found unorthodox beauty in unlikely surroundings

Voice of the people

  • 19 February 2009

Baaba Maal believes that African music can be a political force - a means to empower citizens, educate the young and keep communities together

Constructing a new world

  • 22 January 2009
  • 1 comment

For Alexander Rodchenko and Lyubov Popova, the entire fabric of daily existence - from biscuit packets to book jackets - served a revolutionary vision

Conservative in a leather jacket

  • 08 January 2009
  • 2 comments

Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, Mayor of Tehran

Living with the monster

  • 04 December 2008

A season of contemporary work from Iran shows that the country offers its artists rich inspiration - at a price

Thinking about Cairo

  • 30 October 2008
  • 1 comment

Chicago
Alaa al-Aswany
Fourth Estate, 342pp, £14.99

Darfur

The facade of justice

‘‘There may have been no water, but the province was awash with guns’’

Antonia Quirke

On radio

Antonia Quirke

Michael Sandel

Or Mr Burns?

The NS Profile: Michael Sandel

Art

Art and the Iraq war

The nation's conscience

William Blake

Kiss the joy

Perspectives: Jah Wobble, musician, on William Blake

Diane Arbus

Small tragedies

A revealer of souls

Sugar

Film review

Sugar  (15)

Travel

The elusive capercaillie

Hardcore birding

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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