May 14 a requiem? US goes from dominance, to leadership, to lead bully boy
by Rashmee
Posted on May 14, 2018
A lot is happening today, May 14, 2018. ** The US Embassy in Jerusalem opens.…
Read MoreWashington, D.C.: Cold, clear days (and the Trump fog) of March
by Rashmee
Posted on March 8, 2018
Click here to see my mini album – where to eat, cherry blossom season, Trump …
Read MoreIn Galileo’s Padua, ‘fake news’ flourishes just as his heresy charges once did
by Rashmee
Posted on March 3, 2018
If they think of Padua at all most people would remember Galileo Galilei. The Italian …
Read MoreTrump or not, climate change is not a domestic American issue
by Rashmee
Posted on February 8, 2018
It doesn’t matter what Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt says about …
Read MoreHow did the creative greats of the 1920s, 30s and 40s approach the Jewish question?
by Rashmee
Posted on February 3, 2018
The headlined question is worth asking in our age, at this particular point of time …
Read MoreFrom 1870, Anna reminds us that kings and commoners have the same neuroses
by Rashmee
Posted on November 27, 2017
In the archives of ‘The Atlantic’ there is a delightful fragment from a piece that …
Read More#Bonn conference: A carbon tax on exports from US, the world’s only climate-change denier?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 14, 2017
As negotiators from nearly 200 countries meet this week in Bonn for the year’s biggest …
Read MoreNation as a fortress: We will all be North Korea by another name
by Rashmee
Posted on September 24, 2017 / The Arab Weekly
In 1945, when the Soviets installed Kim Il-sung as putative head of the new country …
Read MoreA Tunisian/ Maghrebi speciality, the pancake of a thousand holes, is good eating
by Rashmee
Posted on September 22, 2017
Yesterday, I ate a Tunisian/ Maghrebi speciality, the pancake of a thousand holes. That’s not …
Read MoreTwo renditions of Mast Qalandar one balmy ‘Indian Night’ in Tunis
by Rashmee
Posted on August 31, 2017
When the Tunisian capital’s under-advertised Season of Love, Rouhanyet, ended (on August 28) it …
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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