Trump turns hate words into icons
by Rashmee
Posted on October 28, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
US President Donald Trump and his administration are playing an insidious word association game with …
Read MoreWhat to make of a migrant who doesn’t learn her new country’s language properly?
by Rashmee
Posted on June 25, 2018
Here’s a woman who came into a western country, worked, got naturalized, married, bore a …
Read MoreWith John Bolton, Trump administration’s competence matches its malevolence
by Rashmee
Posted on March 24, 2018
In January 2017, Benjamin Wittes, editor of Lawfare blog, created a memorable word template for …
Read MoreIn Galileo’s Padua, ‘fake news’ flourishes just as his heresy charges once did
by Rashmee
Posted on March 3, 2018
If they think of Padua at all most people would remember Galileo Galilei. The Italian …
Read MoreIs Trump’s travel ban 3.0 not about Muslims anymore?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 1, 2017 / The Arab Weekly
Technically, it’s no longer possible to call US President Donald Trump’s new list of travel-restricted …
Read MoreWho, on this list, has Donald Trump failed to insult?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 28, 2017
Axios has a great listing. Which of the following groups has President Donald Trump …
Read MoreThe Rohingyas are the new Palestinians, says Foreign Policy. Is that true for US Muslims?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 27, 2017
Last week, I asked ‘Are the Rohingyas the New Palestinians?’ This week, Foreign Policy says …
Read MoreCould Rohingya crisis set off faith-based conflicts in South Asia? That’s what Bimal Ghosh fears
by Rashmee
Posted on September 19, 2017
Only the short-sighted or the credulous would be persuaded by Aung San Suu Kyi’s extraordinary …
Read MoreAre the Rohingyas the new Palestinians?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 17, 2017 / The Arab Weekly
Are the Rohingyas the new Palestinians? They share the following descriptors: The disinherited, the dispossessed …
Read MoreTrump administration’s newest travel ban: not on people per se but their laptops!
by Rashmee
Posted on March 22, 2017
This blog was written within an hour of the news breaking on Tue, March 21. …
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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