Rachel Aspden

Articles by Rachel Aspden

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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.

Swinging Addis

  • 16 August 2007

Ethiopian pop was killed off by dictatorship, but left a rich and eccentric legacy.

Their generation

  • 30 April 2007

On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan Jonathan Cape, 166pp, £12.99

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

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

Of poetry and princes

  • 05 March 2007

In the UAE poetry is the pinnacle of manly achievement

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.

History of a conflict

  • 12 February 2007
  • 3 comments

Key facts about Sunni and Shia Muslims

Status Anxiety

  • 05 February 2007

Hogarth documented the 18th-century class divide - but he was also a keen social climber.

The NS guide to: What you'll be reading in 2007

  • 18 December 2006

Look out for Norman Mailer's strange saga of the Hitler family and John Major's history of cricket's early years.

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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