A tale of two protests
by Rashmee
Posted on December 20, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
What happened in Brussels and Budapest on December 18 was about immigration and its real …
Read MoreConcidisti populos nasum tuum. Brazil’s Bolsonaro spitefully cuts off his (& the poor’s) nose
by Rashmee
Posted on November 16, 2018
Is there anything more silly than Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro provoking Cuba to withdraw its …
Read MoreIs Tarek al-Wazir a face of Germany?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 4, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
Could a single German regional election be a hopeful template for tomorrow? Perhaps. Consider this.…
Read MoreMessage from Bavaria: Peak alt-right?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 21, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
If there’s a lesson from Germany’s regional election in Bavaria, it is about foolish choices …
Read MoreLike Sweden, Finland has its Muslim-bashing populists
by Rashmee
Posted on September 16, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
The rise of the far-right Sweden Democrats, who are hostile to Muslims and migrants, is …
Read MoreWhat? Japan is populism-free because a populist heads the government!
by Rashmee
Posted on January 22, 2018
Ian Buruma, editor of ‘The New York Review of Books’, recently asked an interesting question…
Read MoreThere is nothing so absurd as democratic countries that fear elections
by Rashmee
Posted on January 7, 2018
Today, January 7, Germany’s acting chancellor begins talks to form a government. And perchance stave …
Read MoreWith South Tyrol, Austria’s far-right govt signals wish to unite German-speakers
by Rashmee
Posted on January 5, 2018
After the South Tyrol announcement, everyone’s going to be watching the new Austrian government even …
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 …
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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