Nasser and post-Nakba Palestinian nationalism
by Rashmee
Posted on March 25, 2022
Gamal Abdel Nasser ranks high in the great man school of history in the sense …
Read MorePalestine and the two types of nationalism
by Rashmee
Posted on March 23, 2022
In his 2013 paper titled ‘Palestinian Nationalism: An Overview’, Haifa university Professor As’ad …
Read MoreCountries, nations and states. Where does Palestine fit in?
by Rashmee
Posted on March 22, 2022
Going by American anthropologist Clifford Geertz’s definition, Ukraine is a nation, a state, a country, …
Read MoreWhy parse world’s reaction? To get the truth, not what you wish were the truth
by Rashmee
Posted on March 14, 2022
On the very day that Ethiopia was flying the flag for Russia so to speak, …
Read MoreKuwait got it; will Ukraine? (Hint: international help)
by Rashmee
Posted on February 24, 2022
On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded its neighbour Kuwait, occupied it for seven months and …
Read MoreAbbasid Baghdad’s shock-and-awe diplomacy
by Rashmee
Posted on February 13, 2022
With diplomacy uppermost in our minds as Russian troops stay parked on Ukraine’s border, consider …
Read MoreThe games diplomats play
by Rashmee
Posted on February 12, 2022
Tom Fletcher, a former UK ambassador to Lebanon and author of ‘The Naked Diplomat’, recently …
Read MoreRussia, Ukraine, Schrodinger’s cat and our interconnected world
by Rashmee
Posted on February 3, 2022
I recently read a very interesting commentary on Vladimir Putin’s strategy with respect to Ukraine. …
Read MoreBen Ali’s phone calls illustrate the lesson of history: dictatorships end ignominiously
by Rashmee
Posted on January 14, 2022
With impeccable timing, the BBC has released secretly recorded phone calls between Tunisia’s former dictator…
Read MoreTurning the unvaccinated into modern-day lepers?
by Rashmee
Posted on January 7, 2022
On January 6, Italy made a coronavirus vaccination mandatory for everybody over the age of …
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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