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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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
Leader of the Finns Party Jussi Halla-aho delivers speaks at the Finns Party congress in Jyvaskyla, last year. (Reuters)
Like Sweden, Finland has its Muslim-bashing populists
September 15, 2018
Abandoned cause. Palestinian children carry the fake coffin of the “deal of Trump” during a demonstration in Kfar Qaddum near Nablus. (AFP)
Arab states too, like Trump, share blame for Palestinian plight
September 08, 2018
Moral clarity. A 2003 file picture shows UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (L) and US Secretary of State Colin Powell talking prior to the start of a UN Security Council on the situation in Iraq. (AFP)
It is the Iraq invasion that will define Kofi Annan
September 01, 2018
Prime Minister-designate Imran Khan delivers a speech at his residence in Islamabad , on July 26. (AFP)
Can Imran Khan’s Pakistan balance Riyadh and Tehran?
August 18, 2018
Pride and hope. Relatives of Rashida Tlaib gather as they celebrate her election victory in the village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa in the occupied West Bank, an August 8. (Reuters)
Rashida Tlaib tells a ‘beautiful story of America’
August 11, 2018
Firm stand. Arab-Israeli poet Dareen Tatour reacts after being sentenced to five months in prison in Nazareth, on July 31. (Reuters)
Can a poem be as deadly as a tank?
August 04, 2018
Visitors compose tweets at the satirical Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library. (Reuters)
An ALL-CAPS war on diplomacy
July 28, 2018
UAE State Minister for International Cooperation Reem Ebrahim al-Hashemi speaks during a press briefing in Abu Dhabi. (AFP)
Ethiopia, UAE and Bangladesh: Sanctuary from the heart?
July 24, 2018
Political calculations. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu attends the Knesset Plenary Hall session ahead of the vote on the National Law, on July 18. (AFP)
Israel’s new law is an elegy for Palestinian rights
July 21, 2018
Veteran US diplomat Dennis Ross. (Wikimedia)
Syria, Iran, unicorns and rainbows: The Trump-Putin tryst
July 14, 2018
Anti-immigration activists attend a protest against a group of asylum-seekers from Yemen, in Seoul on June 30, 2018. (AFP)
What South Korea's reaction to Yemeni refugees really tells us
July 12, 2018
Outsourcing responsibilities. An Indonesian official from the UNHCR (R) speaks to migrants from Sri Lanka, stranded along the coast in Lhoknga in Aceh province. (AFP)
Why Europe seeks an ‘Australian solution’ to the migrant issue
July 07, 2018