Rachel Aspden
Articles by Rachel Aspden
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Film
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
Books
Thinking about Cairo
- 30 October 2008
- 1 comment
Chicago
Alaa al-Aswany
Fourth Estate, 342pp, £14.99
Music
Changing man
- 31 July 2008
- 4 comments
Nine years after founding the boundary-breaking West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim tells Rachel Aspden that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem must be cultural, not political
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
- 2 comments
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
