How black magic is becoming a part of Myanmar’s election season
by Rashmee
Posted on October 31, 2015
Canadians may have been scaring themselves silly about the niqab (or hijab, call it what …
Read MoreThe political stakes of migration
by Rashmee
Posted on October 30, 2015 / The Arab Weekly
The quickening flow of migrants from Middle East, through Turkey, to Greece, Balkans and onward …
Read MoreContenders posture, but America is weary of war
by Rashmee
Posted on October 29, 2015 / The National
Across America’s great political divide, there is an even greater consensus. Almost every candidate seeking …
Read MoreAngus Deaton is right about aid as impoverishment but there’s more
by Rashmee
Posted on October 28, 2015
Professor Angus Deaton, the new Nobel Laureate for economics, blames foreign aid for poor governance …
Read MoreDid you know of a Somali model of entrepreneurship? Me neither
by Rashmee
Posted on October 27, 2015
‘Will the Somali model help South Africa avoid recession?’ asks The Fringe, a headline …
Read MoreJoseph Nye is right, less American ‘exemptionalism’ not more interventionism
by Rashmee
Posted on October 26, 2015
Joseph Nye has been warning against US “exceptionalism” turning into “exemptionalism,” which is to say …
Read MoreWant a hack-proof password? Search within your favourite poem
by Rashmee
Posted on October 25, 2015
It was only a matter of time before a couple of computational linguists at the …
Read MoreHow an evening at Gerry’s made me long for a 21st-century Archy & Mehitabel
by Rashmee
Posted on October 24, 2015
It was fitting that it was at Gerry’s in Soho I properly understood something about …
Read MoreThe EU’s cynical change of heart
by Rashmee
Posted on October 23, 2015 / The Arab Weekly
There is a breathtaking transparency about the cynicism with which the EU is attempting to …
Read MoreIs Narendra Modi a manifestation of the age of unreason?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 22, 2015 / The National
India’s current state – a raging debate about the patriotic legitimacy of dissent – brings …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK