William Dalrymple
Articles by William Dalrymple
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Asia
The military and the mullahs
- 23 August 2010
- 54 comments
The Pakistani state has a long history of nurturing jihadis as a means of dominating Afghanistan and undermining India. It is proving a fatal alliance.
International Politics
Why the Taliban are winning in Afghanistan
- 22 June 2010
- 104 comments
As Washington and London struggle to prop up a puppet government over which Hamid Karzai has no control, they risk repeating the blood-soaked 19th-century history of Britain’s imperial defeat.
Asia
Spiritual awakening
- 17 December 2009
- 3 comments
Globalisation has been good for gods in the Indian subcontinent. As the region has remade itself, it has grown more devout, and its religions are becoming ever more entangled with politics
World Affairs
Pakistan reborn?
- 21 February 2008
- 19 comments
Confounding all predictions, the Pakistani people have clearly demonstrated that they want to choose their own rulers and decide their own future. There is a consensus from Lahore to Karachi
Religion
Copts & Brothers
- 13 December 2007
- 5 comments
A surprising dialogue between the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's Coptic Christians suggests a new way of working with Islamist parties.
Books
How the east was won
- 05 July 2007
- 2 comments
The British empire was built not simply on greed, cruelty and oppression - but on surprising exchanges and encounters. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: a Woman in World History Linda Colley Harper Press, 400pp, £25
Middle East
Schools of hope
- 30 April 2007
- 3 comments
With the virtual collapse of government schools, many parents have to depend on Wahhabi-funded madrasas. But a new foundation aims to provide quality, secular, subsidised education. It deserves our support
Books
Unearthing history
- 23 April 2007
City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek lives in Roman Egypt Peter Parsons Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 320pp, £25 ISBN 0297645889
Politics
The last Mughal and a clash of civilisations
- 16 October 2006
- 6 comments
East and west face each other across a divide that some call a religious war. Suicide jihadis take what they see as defensive action and innocent people are killed. But this is 1857. William Dalrymple on lessons from the Raj for the neo-cons
World Affairs
The many and the happy few
- 05 June 2006
Syria - Politically repressive, the minority Alawite rulers have encouraged a surprising religious tolerance
