No evidence pandemic is boosting xenophobia in Europe
by Rashmee
Posted on March 29, 2020 / The Arab Weekly
Post-coronavirus, both the left and the right may be increasingly in sync, albeit for different …
Read MoreEurope does battle again with the demons of migration
by Rashmee
Posted on October 6, 2019 / The Arab Weekly
Direct investment in countries that produce the most migrants is a strategically smart idea. A …
Read MoreBrexit could be solved using a political solution that’s made in Italy
by Rashmee
Posted on September 16, 2019
Sometimes, it takes guts and imagination to do a hard thing. That’s the takeaway from …
Read MoreThe white jihadist peril is with us
by Rashmee
Posted on August 17, 2019 / The Arab Weekly
White nationalism is seen to be validated by the rhetoric of powerful politicians, not least …
Read MoreIs ever closer European union unwittingly making populism more popular?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 2, 2019
It’s not always possible to agree with Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance minister of Greece. …
Read MoreEurope just got less predictable
by Rashmee
Posted on May 31, 2019 / First Post
The Centre-right and centre-left took a beating in the EU elections. What else is in …
Read MoreIs the son-of-the-soil theory to now extend to music? And food?
by Rashmee
Posted on April 15, 2019
There was an element of farce about the bigotry recently on display at the highest …
Read MoreWhat’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 MoreWith EU divided, Britain won’t need to ‘exit’
by Rashmee
Posted on March 16, 2019 / First Post
Before the Brexit referendum there was Viktor Orban. In 2014, two years before Britain voted …
Read MoreWhat South Korea’s reaction to Yemeni refugees really tells us
by Rashmee
Posted on July 13, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
It has taken less than a thousand refugees fleeing Yemen’s grinding three-year-old war for prosperous, …
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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