The dictator returns – through his spawn
by Rashmee
Posted on November 16, 2021
News that Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi will, indeed, run for president of Libya next month, comes …
Read MoreThe war for Libya is not what it seems
by Rashmee
Posted on July 15, 2020 / The Focus
The war for Libya is getting hot again. The country’s eastern-based parliament has said it …
Read MoreLibya arms embargo is a ‘joke’, said a UN envoy. But it’s peace-making that is a farce
by Rashmee
Posted on February 26, 2020
Now that European foreign ministers have agreed on a new Mediterranean naval mission to enforce …
Read MoreWhen it comes to peace, is the EU really a great power?
by Rashmee
Posted on January 21, 2020 / The National
Even before he became the European Union’s new foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, suggested that …
Read MoreHow a new multilateralism is emerging from summits and crises
by Rashmee
Posted on August 27, 2019 / The National
The freshly concluded Group of Seven summit in Biarritz and the fires raging through the …
Read MoreEver tried Ramadan in a poem?
by Rashmee
Posted on May 6, 2019
I was very taken by Libyan-American Khaled Mattawa’s poem, which bears the simple title ‘Ramadan’.…
Read MoreTurning Venezuela into a Libya-on-the Caribbean
by Rashmee
Posted on February 3, 2019 / The Arab Weekly
At one stroke Donald Trump’s America has made a Libya out of Venezuela. It is …
Read MoreWhy the West must abandon its illusions on Syria
by Rashmee
Posted on January 29, 2019
Former NATO secretary general Javier Solana has hurled what can only be called a truth …
Read MoreDid you notice Libyan power centres aren’t shouting #fake news about CNN slave footage?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 25, 2017
Just to continue the Thanksgiving theme, let us be grateful Libya’s politicians and even its …
Read MoreItaly goes its own way on migrants. EU works as trading bloc and not much more
by Rashmee
Posted on September 21, 2017
I’m pro-European in the sense that I’m in favour of collaboration between the nations and …
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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