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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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
Fake problems. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto speaks during the “Visegrad-4 plus Balkan-4 plus” meeting in Greece, on May 1. (Reuters)
That other European Union
June 30, 2018
Britain's Prince William visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, June 28, 2018. (Reuters)
British choreography should have risen beyond the symbolic gesture
June 28, 2018
A view of a temporary detention centre for illegal immigrant children and teenagers at Tornillo, Texas, on June 18. (AFP)
Global migration, from American dream to nightmare
June 23, 2018
Wishful thinking. People walk past a billboard depicting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un near the Koreatown neighbourhood in Los Angeles, on June 11. (AFP)
Trump-Kim summit can set off nuclear dominoes game
June 16, 2018
Young people show their diplomas as they discuss plans to make an illegal boat trip in Tunisia’s Port Monastir. (Reuters)
Capsized Tunisian boat not just a tragedy but a template
June 09, 2018
Fortune favours the bold. French President Emmanuel Macron (L) speaks with Mamoudou Gassama at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris, on May 28.(AFP)
Can the heroic act of the Paris ‘Spider-Man’ change the perception of migrants?
June 02, 2018
Part of the landscape at the town of Matmata in southern Tunisia. (The Ministry of Tourism)
Tunisia’s troglodytes follow a different script from Star Wars
May 26, 2018
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (L), Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner (C-R) and his wife Ivanka Trump at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem, on May 14. (AFP)
Making blood sport of Palestinian misery
May 19, 2018