Christmas should be cancelled in December and moved to February 7
by Rashmee
Posted on December 25, 2022
Can’t do better this Christmas than to turn your attention to something that first came …
Read MoreThe poinsettia is soprano in the season’s grand opera
by Rashmee
Posted on December 22, 2022
Come Christmas, the most festive houseplant of them all lights up hallways, dinner tables and …
Read MoreWorking the Santa shift at 35,000 feet
by Rashmee
Posted on December 17, 2022
The December issue of British Airways’ The Club magazine has a piece titled “Working …
Read More30 years…and counting of ‘They’re trying to cancel Christmas’
by Rashmee
Posted on December 12, 2021
It was Politico that noticed an annual celebration that has taken its place on the …
Read MoreA Brexit Christmas?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 4, 2021
I know it’s a bit early to be thinking about Christmas, but it’s hard not …
Read MoreThe case for giving ‘bad’ gifts this year
by Rashmee
Posted on December 25, 2020
If you’re reading this today, the headline probably caught your eye either because you’ve just …
Read MoreHow to party like it’s 2020
by Rashmee
Posted on December 8, 2020 / The Economist
The holiday season may be here, but the traditional office party? Not so much. The …
Read MoreAmid the dreary state of Arab-Israeli relations comes Christmas cheer and a message of hope
by Rashmee
Posted on December 26, 2019 / The National
It being Christmas, there is a certain obligation to bring glad tidings, or at least …
Read MoreIn Bethlehem, a Christmas story with a modern message-and Jingle Bells in Arabic
by Rashmee
Posted on December 25, 2019 / Quartz
At the newly-renovated Church of the Nativity where, the story goes, Jesus, the Prince of …
Read MoreThe beginning of the end of American power? – Part I
by Rashmee
Posted on January 17, 2019
If you’re American it’s hard to imagine a happy new year in 2019. Let me …
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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