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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Uncertain future. Civilians evacuated from the ISIS holdout of Baghouz wait at a screening area in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, March 5. (AFP)
After Baghouz, what do you do with ISIS families?
March 16, 2019
US President Donald Trump passes his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner during a reception at the White House in Washington. (Reuters)
What the Trump-Kushner peace plan might actually mean
March 09, 2019
A Sudanese protester waves a national flag during an anti-government demonstration in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman, January 31. (AFP)
Sudan’s story is told in many ways
March 02, 2019
 A video grab shows Shamima Begum talking to a BBC reporter. (Twitter) 
Revoking citizenship is not an answer to ISIS returnee question
February 23, 2019
Not enough reason for criticism? Israeli policemen push a Palestinian imam in Hebron. (AP)
The Shylock card only serves Israel’s purpose
February 16, 2019
Venezuela’s self-declared interim leader Juan Guaido (C) speaks to supporters during a gathering at a public plaza in Las Mercedes neighbourhood of Caracas, January 29. (AP)
Turning Venezuela into a Libya-on-the Caribbean
February 02, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu attends the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee at the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem November 19, 2018. (Reuters)
Why Israel is pushing for a reset in relations with the Muslim world
January 26, 2019
Larger-than-life. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks to supporters during a rally in Sakarya, January 13. (AP)
Turkey’s state of permanent crisis serves Erdogan
January 19, 2019
US national security adviser John Bolton (2nd R) wears virtual reality goggles during a visit to the Western Wall tunnel complex in Jerusalem’s Old City, January 6. (Reuters)
VR goggles can’t reveal Trump’s Syria strategy
January 12, 2019
A Palestinian boy sits on a chair as Israeli bulldozers demolish a school site in the village of Yatta, south of Hebron, last July. (AFP)
2019 may be a happier new year than before for Palestinians
January 05, 2019
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) receives flowers from a Lebanese refugee as Migration Commissioner Annette Widmann-Mauz (R) looks on, last June. (Reuters)
Why Merkel took a massive bet on migrants as force for growth
January 05, 2019
A Muslim woman takes a selfie with Christmas trees in downtown Beirut. (AP)
The Christmas story is told in the Quran
December 22, 2018
Kurdish demonstrators gather to protest near the border wall separating Turkey from Syria in the western Syrian countryside of Ras al-Ain, December 20. (AFP)
Message of Syria withdrawal: You can trust America to let you down
December 20, 2018
People hold a big European Union flag during a protest against a proposed new labor law, billed as the "slave law", in front of the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary, on December 18. (Reuters)
A tale of two protests
December 19, 2018
Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Nasser Bourita (C), United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (L) and chair of the opening session of the UN Migration Conference in Marrakech, December 10. (AFP)
The migration compact doesn’t help a fraught debate
December 15, 2018
A customers looks at items for sale at the pop-up shop in London. (Reuters)
Love refugees? Is Britain redefining a fraught debate?
December 08, 2018
A general view of the MI6 building in London. (AP)
Secrets and lies about scholars and spies
December 01, 2018
Firm stance. Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud during a cabinet meeting, on November 20. (SPA)
Why Saudi rhetorical support for Palestinians matters
November 24, 2018
Courtyard of the Uqba ibn Nafi Mosque in Kairouan.(Ministry of Tourism)
Kairouan has magic and mystery and it’s on the map
November 17, 2018
Polarised politics. A voter gets directions from a volunteer before voting in midterms in Helena, Montana, on November 6. (Reuters)
Faux foreign issues and Trump’s battle for votes
November 10, 2018