Kairouan has magic and mystery and it’s on the map
by Rashmee
Posted on November 18, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
KAIROUAN, Tunisia — Tunisians boast that Kairouan, a couple of hours south by car from …
Read MoreTozeur, lush and bountiful oasis in southern Tunisia
by Rashmee
Posted on June 2, 2018
Tozeur is a lush and bountiful oasis dotted with “palmeries” as they call them here. …
Read MoreTozeur in southern Tunisia wears its storied history fairly lightly
by Rashmee
Posted on June 1, 2018
Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, the 20th century poet whose style is admired throughout the Arab world and …
Read MoreTunisia: ‘Menu Ramadanesque’ and other delights
by Rashmee
Posted on May 31, 2018
Ahead of iftar, when the day’s fast ends during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, …
Read MoreIn Tamezret, Tunisia, a 2,000-year-old Berber kitchen in a mountain cave
by Rashmee
Posted on May 29, 2018
In Tamezret, a mostly abandoned mountain-top Berber village in southern Tunisia, we meet Monji Bouras, …
Read MoreWhat meaning did Meghan Markle’s white wedding dress really have?
by Rashmee
Posted on May 21, 2018
That Meghan Markle’s elegant wedding dress was white meant really nothing at all. It didn’t …
Read MoreA distinctly European sensibility in a Tunisian troglodyte house
by Rashmee
Posted on May 19, 2018
We walk into the Trait d’Union, Tijma, Matmata in distant south-eastern Tunisia. The Libyan border …
Read MoreLiving below ground: Matmata, southern Tunisia
by Rashmee
Posted on May 18, 2018
I sit in a troglodyte structure to write this. It is a dwelling typical of …
Read MoreIn Old Matmata, Tunisia, they still live below the ground as for centuries
by Rashmee
Posted on May 17, 2018
Off to Matmata, the Berber town in southern Tunisia, where some of the locals still …
Read MoreChristmas unsettled. A Christmas tagine rather than a Christmas tree!
by Rashmee
Posted on December 25, 2017
This is a very different Christmas for us. The Tunis house is in the process …
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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