Links from my del.icio.us account for October 28th through October 29th:
- Washington Times – GOULDEN: Eddy and the Mideast – Story of arabist spy Bill Eddy.
- Harvard Iranian Oral History Project Harvard University – Personal recordings from the 1920s to the 1980s from Iran.
- Welcome to POMED’s Country Pages Project | Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) – POMED launches "country pages" covering Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and Morocco.
- The Israel Lobby Archive – Very interesting historical documents tracking the history of the Israel lobby in the United States, notably previously confidential material from the 1960s. Bookmark it!
- U.S. Mulls Talks With Taliban in Bid to Quell Afghan Unrest – WSJ.com – Petraeus backs initiative to talk to "moderate" Taliban, driving a wedge with "irreconciliable" elements.
- Egypt sheikh backs women’s right to beat husbands – Middle East Times – First all the wife-swapping, now this…