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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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
A man on a mission. Tarek al-Wazir leaves the polling station after he cast his vote for the Hesse state election in Offenbach, on October 28. (AP)
Is Tarek al-Wazir a face of Germany?
November 03, 2018
Free ride. Central American migrants hitch a ride as they head to the US southern border, on October 25. (AFP)
Trump turns hate words into icons
October 27, 2018
Not many dividends. A voter casts her vote inside a ballot box at a polling station during the Bavaria state election, on 14 October. (Daniel Karmann)
Message from Bavaria: Peak alt-right?
October 20, 2018
Soft breakup. US President Donald Trump meets with outgoing US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the Oval Office of the White House, on October 9. (AP)
Nikki Haley is gone. Long live the Trump doctrine
October 13, 2018
Fans of slain former beauty queen, fashion model and social media star Tara al-Fares pray and light candles at her gravesite in Najaf. (AP)
Barbie wannabes and Iraqi women activists at risk
October 06, 2018
Members of the US delegation listen as President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations General Assembly, on September 25. (AP)
America’s new game is Risk without rules
September 29, 2018
Hans-Georg Maassen, former president of the German domestic intelligence service, leaves after a hearing in front of a parliamentary control panel in Berlin, on September 12. (AFP)
The ‘other’ is hounded in Germany. Sound familiar?
September 22, 2018