Global migration, from American dream to nightmare

by Rashmee

Posted on June 24, 2018 / The Arab Weekly


With every year since 2012, there’s been a new post-second world war global record for …

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Can the heroic act of the Paris ‘Spider-Man’ change the perception of migrants?

by Rashmee

Posted on June 3, 2018 / The Arab Weekly


Mamoudou Gassama, the Malian undocumented migrant feted by France for his heroism, epitomises the many …

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Italy has fewer migrants now but hateful Trumpian echoes resound

by Rashmee

Posted on February 11, 2018 / The Arab Weekly


By every calculation, Italy’s election in early March will settle nothing. The country may or …

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On refugees, Angela Merkel has been nothing like that ugly new verb, Merkeln

by Rashmee

Posted on August 29, 2015


The migration issue – and Germany’s remarkable response to it this week – means it …

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A stylebook for CEOs of countries? With rules on how to refer to refugees?

by Rashmee

Posted on August 4, 2015


Should the chief executives of countries – David Cameron of the UK, for instance – …

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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