In our occasional feature we invite guests to select the six cultural links that might sustain them if, by some mischance, they were forced to spend eternity in a succession of airport departure lounges with only an iPad or similar device for company. Today’s voyager is The Dabbler’s very own correspondent ... Read More...
About Author Profile: Toby Ash
There is only one starting point to any post on Arab music and that’s Egypt and the ‘Star of the East’ Umm Kulthum, who is widely lauded as the greatest Arab singer of the twentieth century. Born the daughter of an Imam in the Nile Delta in about 1900, her talent ... Read More...
Here’s another post from The Dabbler’s Most South- Westerly Tip of England Correspondent, Toby Ash, who has discovered in the midst of tropical gardens a delightful new place to read books and take in the sea views. Situated on the western side of Penzance’s lovely tropical garden, close to the ornate ... Read More...
For much of the 1990s Toby Ash was a regular media commentator on Middle East and international affairs, before descending unexpectedly into the murky world of business and commerce. The Dabbler is pleased to announce that he has now miraculously reappeared on the most south-westerly tip of England from where ... Read More...
