In 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 MoreVisiting the Ben Nasrs in their troglodyte house, Matmata, Tunisia
by Rashmee
Posted on May 28, 2018
We turn up at the Ben Nasrs’ family home in western Matmata. Here’s a handy …
Read MoreTunisia’s troglodytes follow a different script from Star Wars
by Rashmee
Posted on May 27, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
MATMATA, Tunisia — Najet sits in her kitchen about 6 metres below ground level. It …
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 MoreFor the love of #Venice, don’t go there. Head to Trieste instead
by Rashmee
Posted on May 5, 2018
I visited Venice last April (some of what I wrote at the time is here…
Read More#Tunis rings in the #New Year with roast chicken and snowy-scarved pastry saints
by Rashmee
Posted on January 1, 2018
For the third year running, I find myself in Tunisia as the old year dies …
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