William Dalrymple
Articles by william dalrymple
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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
- 4 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
- 1 comment
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
Ideas
NS Christmas Essay - 'Scholars are only now beginning to realise the extent to which the Mughal emperors adopted what most would assume to be outrightly Christian devotions'
- 19 December 2005
In the year that Islamist terrorism finally reached London, it is important to emphasise that Christianity and Islam are not nearly so far apart as both Bin Laden and the neo-cons would like us to believe
World Affairs
Inside Islam's ''terror schools''
- 28 March 2005
Madrasas are Islamic colleges accused by the US of incubating terrorism and the attacks of 9/11. From Pakistan, William Dalrymple investigates the threat
