Is Sweden’s new foreign policy ‘feminist’ or just pointlessly undiplomatic?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 21, 2015
So foreign minister Margot Wallström was rather undiplomatic in March about the way Saudi Arabia …
Read MoreWhy Commander-in-Chief Obama is leaving his troops in Afghanistan
by Rashmee
Posted on October 20, 2015
One has to feel for Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner, a man who once …
Read MoreCan rubber flip-flops mean a people are no longer extremely poor?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 19, 2015
Have you ever seen extreme poverty? I ask simply because the World Bank recently announced …
Read MoreReading heaven? France pioneers vending machines that dispense short stories
by Rashmee
Posted on October 18, 2015
As someone who’s fallen in love with the short story all over again (Alice Munro, …
Read MoreDateline London, BBC October 17, 2015
by Rashmee
Posted on October 17, 2015 / BBC World
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Read MoreWhat do Palestinians share with America’s Blacks? The question of civil rights
by Rashmee
Posted on October 17, 2015
Only the most stony-hearted (or those who believe Benjamin Netanyahu is a man of peace) …
Read MoreWill the Quartet agree now to economic dialogue?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 16, 2015 / The Arab Weekly
The more lasting effect of the Nobel prize is that Tunisia has been enshrined as …
Read MoreEurope’s refugee policy is tainted by fear of the other
by Rashmee
Posted on October 15, 2015
Some time this weekend a small batch of Syrians will be relocated from Greece to …
Read MoreBlindly bashing Pakistan won’t help Afghanistan or worst the Taliban
by Rashmee
Posted on October 14, 2015
This Washington Post piece by Fareed Zakaria is really quite remarkable. As a blind bit …
Read MoreNonsense, Hillary Clinton’s likeability gap isn’t a sign of mass misogyny
by Rashmee
Posted on October 13, 2015
The things that politicians do, to convince people they’re nice. Really nice. Inside. Consider Hillary …
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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