William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple works from New Delhi. The New Delhi office of Bloomsbury Publishing, publishers of fiction and non-fiction by authors including J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood and William Dalrymple. William Dalrymple has over 32380 followers on Twitter.
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/ 28 September 2007

Political Islam on the march

Much Western journalism in the six years since 9/11 has concentrated on terrorist groups, jihadis and suicide bombers. But while the threat of violence remains very real, those commentators who have compared what they ignorantly call ”Islamo- fascism” to the Nazis are guilty of hysteria: the differences in relative power and military capability are too great for the comparison to be valid, writes William Dalrymple.

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/ 20 August 2007

Pakistan: The ‘poor neighbour’

A mid all the hoopla surrounding the 60th anniversary of Indian independence, almost nothing has been heard from Pakistan, which also turned 60 recently. Nothing, that is, if you discount the low rumble of suicide bombings, the noise of automatic weapons storming the Red Mosque and the creak of slowly collapsing dictatorships.