Springtime in Africa?

by Rashmee

Posted on August 31, 2023


France is on the wrong side of history in Gabon but the United States is …

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Fireworks in France: Bastille Day and riots

by Rashmee

Posted on July 23, 2023


Welcome to the fifth instalment of This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new …

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On race, France is now Americanised

by Rashmee

Posted on July 15, 2023 / The Times of India


This Bastille Day, celebrations of the moment in 1789 that sparked the French revolution, serves …

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On race, France is now Americanised

by Rashmee

Posted on July 13, 2023 / The Times of India


This Bastille Day, celebrations of the July 14 moment in 1789 that sparked the French …

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Fireworks in France: Bastille Day and riots

by Rashmee

Posted on July 12, 2023 / This Week, Those Books


Welcome to the fifth instalment of This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new …

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Shouldn’t the French get with the script?

by Rashmee

Posted on May 1, 2023


Over on my substack Joining the Dots, my former BBC colleague Henri Astier makes …

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Should Tunisia be following the French model of doing business? Or not…

by Rashmee

Posted on July 14, 2022


We are a pretty confused lot, it strikes me, as I think about two parallel …

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Paris emphatically did not have politics on its mind

by Rashmee

Posted on June 13, 2022


On election day in Paris, there was little sign that people had politics on their …

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The French Trump?

by Rashmee

Posted on October 25, 2021


Journalists know that artful comparisons are excellent shorthand to convey nuance. So Bassem Youssef is …

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Young though he is, Macron may suddenly feel the intimations of mortality. Here’s why

by Rashmee

Posted on December 4, 2020


News reports on 94-year-old Valéry Giscard d’Estaing’s death routinely described France’s former president as “the …

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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