Rachel Aspden

Articles by Rachel Aspden

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The history boys

  • 01 November 2007

Algeria's El Gusto hark back to a golden age of religious tolerance

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
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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.

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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