A tale of two elections: Israel, 2019; US, 2020 – Part II
by Rashmee
Posted on April 8, 2019
While US President Donald Trump will run for re-election in 2020 on a solidly pro-Israel …
Read MoreA tale of two elections: Israel 2019, US 2020
by Rashmee
Posted on March 31, 2019 / The Arab Weekly
Israel’s election campaign went to Washington on March 25, big time. Both front runners for …
Read More2019 may be a happier new year than before for Palestinians
by Rashmee
Posted on January 6, 2019 / The Arab Weekly
Prediction is a mug’s game but there is a reasonable chance 2019 will be a …
Read MoreTrump’s America has a foreign policy Talleyrand would boil down to one word: ‘No’
by Rashmee
Posted on August 28, 2018
Five separate events over the past few days have come together to create a better …
Read MoreRashida Tlaib tells a ‘beautiful story of America’
by Rashmee
Posted on August 12, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
After Rashida Tlaib won the Democratic Party’s nomination for the US House of Representatives in …
Read MoreCan a poem be as deadly as a tank?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 5, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
A poem has certainly never stopped a tank, Nobel literature laureate Seamus Heaney once wrote, …
Read MoreTis well to remember: The long shadow cast by France on Syria
by Rashmee
Posted on July 6, 2018
To many people, Syria spells no more than a long-running civil war, a dangerously internationalising …
Read MoreA controversial take on ‘nakba’, Palestinians’ displacement: end it in the mind
by Rashmee
Posted on May 15, 2018
“Reading makes immigrants of us all,” the novelist Jean Rhys once said. “It takes us …
Read MoreHundreds of Palestinian Gandhis and Rosa Parks must stand and sit on principle
by Rashmee
Posted on December 13, 2017
There is only one course available to Palestinians now. They must adopt non-violent resistance. Hundreds …
Read MoreDid you hear about Palestinian recognition of Texas as part of Mexico?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 7, 2017
It had to happen. The Palestinian National Authority announced that it would recognize Texas as …
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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