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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Anti-government demonstrators chant slogans during a protest on November 9. (AFP)
Arab spring, summer, autumn, winter… worldwide
November 09, 2019
Syrian artist Aziz al-Asmar (C) poses with relatives near a mural, in the town of Binnish in Idlib province, depicting US president Donald Trump directing the "play" of killing ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria, October 28. (AFP)
It really wasn’t Trump’s bin Laden moment
October 30, 2019
Civilians ride in the back of a truck as they flee villages that were taken over by Turkey-backed fighters in the countryside of Tal Abyad, October 24. (AFP)
In Syria, history is repeating itself
October 26, 2019
A good friend? Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands during their meeting in Ankara, September 16. (Reuters)
Is it OK to say thank God for Russia?
October 19, 2019
US President Donald Trump (R) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka, June 29. (AFP)
The US presidency has just gone even more global
October 09, 2019
No end in sight. Migrants wait to board a bus during the evacuation of a makeshift camp in La Villette Park in Paris, August 28. (AFP)
Europe does battle again with the demons of migration
October 05, 2019
Passengers wait in front of Thomas Cook's office at Palma de Mallorca Airport in Palma, Spain September 25, 2019. (DPA)
Regional tourism must move on from the Thomas Cook package
September 25, 2019
In this Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018 photo, Chinese visitors arrive to the opening of the Syria rebuilding exhibition at the fair grounds in Damascus, Syria. (AP)
Rebuilding Syria, one luxury hotel at a time
September 21, 2019
Impractical approach. US President Donald Trump (L) and his new Middle East peace envoy Avi Berkowitz. (Twitter)
Israeli prime minister’s unilateralism is informed by Trump’s style
September 14, 2019
A refugee family show their papers to a policeman as they arrive at a detention camp in northern Greece. (AFP)
Europe’s asylum policies are arbitrary and set a bad example
September 07, 2019
US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, August 30. (Reuters)
For now, Trump-Iran talks are about talking
August 31, 2019
In this April 23, 2018, file photo, Canada's Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale during a news conference in Toronto. (AP)
Bad jihadists make for good politics
August 24, 2019
Members of the ShieldWall Network, a white nationalist group, perform a Nazi salute during a party outside Atkins, Arkansas, last March. (Reuters)
The white jihadist peril is with us
August 17, 2019
Tragic fates. President Donald Trump listens to Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, from Yazidi, Iraq, centre, as he meets with survivors of religious persecution in the Oval Office of the White House on July 17, 2019, in Washington. (AP)
Can the world afford changing the rules on refugees?
August 03, 2019
New policies. Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds his first Cabinet meeting at Downing Street in London, Britain, July 25. (Reuters)
What will Boris Johnson’s Britain do about Iran?
July 27, 2019
President Donald Trump smiles at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) after signing an official proclamation formally recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, March 25. (AP)
Trump versus Palestinians: The ‘Great Man’ theory at work
July 20, 2019
A Muslim man walks after prayers in front of a mosque in Hotan in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region. (AFP)
‘Re-educating’ Chinese Muslims and all of Denmark
July 13, 2019
Carola Rackete, the 31-year-old Sea-Watch 3 captain, disembarks from a Finance police boat and is escorted to a car in Porto Empedocle, Italy, July 1. (Reuters)
Does migration herald the demise of the liberal idea?
July 06, 2019
Losing control. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington, June 24. (AP)
Why Trump’s America seems increasingly powerless
June 29, 2019
A combination of pictures shows (L-R) Youssef Zaghba, Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane, believed by police to be the three attackers in the June 3 terror attack on London Bridge. (AFP)
The terrible link between jihadists and Islamophobes
June 22, 2019