Rachel Aspden
Articles by Rachel Aspden
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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.
Culture
Swinging Addis
- 16 August 2007
Ethiopian pop was killed off by dictatorship, but left a rich and eccentric legacy.
Culture
Soul searching
- 23 April 2007
The Eighth Sharjah Biennial is the latest in a series of huge art exhibitions to take place in the Gulf. Rachel Aspden finds that the work on show fails to challenge the rigidly controlled society outside the gallery
Books
Eastern adventure
- 26 March 2007
Misadventure in the Middle East: travels as tramp, artist and spy Henry Hemming Nicholas Brealey, 298pp, £10.99 ISBN 1857883950
Middle East
Of poetry and princes
- 05 March 2007
In the UAE poetry is the pinnacle of manly achievement
Books
Voice of the Middle East?
- 26 February 2007
Alaa Al Aswany's controversial novel The Yacoubian Building has taken the Arab world by storm. He talks to Rachel Aspden.
Art
Status Anxiety
- 05 February 2007
Hogarth documented the 18th-century class divide - but he was also a keen social climber.
