Rashmee Roshan Lall

Rashmee Roshan Lall is a regular columnist for The Arab Weekly. She blogs at www.rashmee.com and is on Twitter @rashmeerl

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A US protester in Seattle holding a sign referring to the Northwest Detention Centre in Washington state where immigrants are held. (Reuters)
Trump’s immigration ban is troubling but not as much as his fulminations on mosques
April 25, 2020
Members of a German rescue NGO on a rubber boat during an operation off the Libyan coast. (AFP)
Even a pandemic can’t stop the desperate flow of refugees to Europe
April 17, 2020
A file photo shows a N Security Council meeting at the UN headquarters in New York. (AFP)
United Nations struggles in a leaderless world
April 11, 2020
U.S. troops block a highway in outskirts of Baghdad after a roadside bomb attack December 7, 2003.(Reuters)
If China were sued over the pandemic, the US should be over Iraq
April 04, 2020
In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, a view of Bergamo, the heart of the hardest-hit province in Italy’s hardest-hit region of Lombardy, Italy. (AP)
No evidence pandemic is boosting xenophobia in Europe
March 28, 2020
An October 2019 file picture shows men, accused of being affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) group, sit on the floor in a prison in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh. (AFP)
In time of coronavirus, ISIS shows method in its murderous madness
March 21, 2020
Saudi Aramco logo is pictured at the oil facility in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia October 12, 2019. (REUTERS)
Black swans, grey rhinos and the global oil market
March 14, 2020
Employees of Aramco oil company at Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq oil processing plant. (AFP)
Six decades after independence, Middle East still looking for growth model
March 07, 2020
Emergency vehicles at the scene after a car ploughed into a carnival parade injuring several people in Volkmarsen, Germany February 24. (Reuters)
Xenophobia is stock-in-trade of Europe’s far right
February 29, 2020
Kuwaiti health minister Sheikh Basel al-Sabah (R) speaks to the press at Sheikh Saad Airport in Kuwait City, on February 22. (AFP)
When China sneezes, the world takes to its sick bed
February 22, 2020
File picture shows protesters taking part in a demonstration against US President Donald Trump’s travel ban outside a federal courthouse in Seattle. (AP)
Trump’s invisible wall is not just for Muslims
February 15, 2020
Police forensic officers work outside of a Boots store on Streatham High Road in south London on February 3, 2020, after a man was shot dead by police on February 2, following reports he had stabbed two people. (AFP)
Incarcerating jihadists ‘forever’ could run into logistical quicksand
February 08, 2020
Elizabeth Warren rallies volunteers before they go out to canvas in Urbandale, Iowa, February 01. (AFP)
Iowa caucuses show Middle East issues matter
February 01, 2020
No easy answers. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson outside 10 Downing Street in central London, January 21. (AFP)
Fear of the ‘other’ causes ructions in Britain and Norway
January 25, 2020
US President Donald Trump speaks about the situation with Iran in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, DC, January 8, (AFP)
Trump’s threat to ruin Iraq financially has a historical parallel
January 18, 2020
Former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn speaks at a press conference in Beirut, January 8. (AFP)
Carlos Ghosn could be bad news for Lebanon
January 11, 2020
The Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan is seen, with the Dome of the Rock in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the background, in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, December 10. (AFP)
United States is absent from discussion of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
January 04, 2020
This image shows a screen grab of the Twitter account of US President Donald Trump, his face superimposed on a picture of Silvester Stallone Rocky III boxing movie, November 27. (@realDonaldTrump / AFP)
It’s going to be a year of ‘conscious uncoupling’
December 21, 2019
Rohingya refugees watch on a mobile phone a live feed of Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi's appearance at the UN's International Court of Justice in the Hague, December 11.  (AFP)
Gambia’s case on behalf of the Rohingyas underlines shared humanity not just Muslim concerns
December 18, 2019
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan attend a vigil for victims of a fatal attack on London Bridge in London, Britain December 2, 2019. REUTERS
Does Britain believe in deradicalisation anymore?
December 07, 2019