What’s foreign and Arab about Italy’s Eurovision entry?
by Rashmee
Posted on April 7, 2019 / The Arab Weekly
There is an element of farce about the bigotry on display at the highest levels …
Read MoreThe Christmas story is told in the Quran
by Rashmee
Posted on December 24, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
Far-right parties in the West often portray Islam as at war with Christianity. What gets …
Read MoreFrom spiritual harmony to the women’s movement, new narratives will emerge in 2018
by Rashmee
Posted on December 26, 2017 / The National
“Last year’s words belong to last year’s language,” wrote TS Eliot in the final poem …
Read MoreGreece deals judiciously with Western Thrace sharia law, a relic of the Ottoman empire
by Rashmee
Posted on December 4, 2017
It’s been nearly three weeks since the prime minister of Greece announced his government was …
Read MoreTrump’s Twitter guru rails at both migrants and Western-born children of migrants
by Rashmee
Posted on December 1, 2017
Now that the gloves are mostly off, why don’t Donald Trump, Ann Coulter and others …
Read MoreFrance might fear terrorism but why does it regard the burqini with trepidation?
by Rashmee
Posted on April 22, 2017
There’s terrorism and then there’s the burqini. Which does the French voter fear more? Does …
Read MoreIslam and Manuel Valls’ cultural battle for the heart and soul of France
by Rashmee
Posted on January 28, 2017
France’s Socialist Party presidential primary is tomorrow (Sunday, January 22) and it’s worth considering the …
Read MoreItaly starts giving 18-year-olds free money: Counter-terrorism and the culture wars
by Rashmee
Posted on September 14, 2016
I kid you not. From tomorrow, September 15, the Italian government will give 575,000 young …
Read MoreFrance vs France. Two views of burqini debate and what it might mean for the republic
by Rashmee
Posted on August 30, 2016
Dominique Moisi, a professor at L’Institut d’études politiques de Paris and senior adviser at the …
Read MoreWhy did France stick with the hijab ban but found the one on burqinis hard-going?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 27, 2016
You don’t have to be a lawyer to wonder why France made such a fuss …
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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