Great reporting by @madamasr on Orwellian housing project: no trees, no shops, no vendors, and guards at the gate!
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A Website Seeks to Show ‘How Alive Arabic Is’
@ursulind profiles self-proclaimed “Arabic nerd,” greater of online dictionary Living Arabic, for @alfanar
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Conventional Humanitarian Solutions Fail the Test
Parastou Hassouri in MERIP on the untenable current system for helping refugees
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Algeria and Iraq shut down internet to prevent exam cheating
Absurd, stupid, neanderthal.
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What Happens Now in Syria? | LobeLog
Interview with Joshua Landis.
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Limiting Change Through Change: The Key to the Algerian Regime’s Longevity | Carnegie
Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck.
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Israel Charges a Former Minister With Spying for Iran | NYT
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Why Arab states have lots of expensive villas | The Economist
And not enough cheap homes.
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The last salt miners of Morocco | Al Jazeera
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A New Standard for the Gulf States | LRB blog
Pretty shocking stat from Oliver Miles: over 1200 workers have died in last 3 years in Qatar, largely on World Cup 2022 projects.
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