Rachel Aspden

Articles by Rachel Aspden

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All that glitters

  • 06 December 2007

The O2's exhibition of artefacts from ancient Egypt has been dismissed as "tacky" and "rapacious". The critics are wrong

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

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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