How will Taliban 2.0 interpret Sharia law in Afghanistan?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 27, 2021 / The New European
This is the full (and free) version of the piece I wrote for The New …
Read MoreThis Christmas we managed to frighten ourselves into deep gloom
by Rashmee
Posted on December 26, 2021
It’s probably a sign of the times that the hottest, newest Netflix Christmas movie this …
Read MoreA grim Christmas for the Soviet Union, 30 years ago
by Rashmee
Posted on December 25, 2021
On Christmas Day, 30 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev hung up on the hammer and sickle, …
Read MoreAlong with other things, America has a Santa crisis
by Rashmee
Posted on December 24, 2021
It’s not easy being a worthy Santa – portliness, for instance, might be a desirable …
Read MoreThe new Internationale and the new kids on the left bloc
by Rashmee
Posted on December 23, 2021
If Gabriel Boric, Chile’s bearded, millennial president-elect, represents anything it is the changing nature …
Read MoreHow Erdogan’s faux-religious economic scruples matter to Nutella-lovers
by Rashmee
Posted on December 22, 2021
Turkey produces most of the world’s hazelnuts – 70 per cent, to be precise – …
Read MoreChile’s election aftermath ironically speaks volumes about America
by Rashmee
Posted on December 21, 2021
The aftermath of the December 19 Chilean presidential election ironically says more about the parlous …
Read MoreThe Orient Express doesn’t have much to do with the orient anymore
by Rashmee
Posted on December 20, 2021
Anyone who’s read Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ will remember the murder mystery …
Read MoreThe Refugee Convention is dead: let’s bury it and start again
by Rashmee
Posted on December 19, 2021 / open Democracy
In the past decade, there’s been a shift away from international norms for protecting people …
Read MoreThe case for China’s continued rise, even in a deglobalising world
by Rashmee
Posted on December 18, 2021
I recently read a Shanghai-based think-tanker’s view on why China will continue to rise. Zhang …
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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