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Links January 25th and January 26th

Automatically posted links for January 25th through January 26th:

The Arab – New London-based magazine on MENA

MidEast Brief::Egypt – Newish website links to articles on region

Egypt says will keep border open and help Gazans restock – Unable to stop flow of people, Egypt maintains borders open

Abbas: No talks with Hamas despite Gaza border chaos – Abu Mazen turns down Cairo talks with Hamas

PALESTINIANS CREATE NEW BREACHES DESPITE EGYPTIAN ATTEMPTS TO SEAL THE BORDER – Article mentions Egyptian tanks on their way to border

Gaza source: Hamas planned border wall blast for months – Amira Hass

Gaza into Egypt Middle East Strategy at Harvard – M. Kramer revives “give Gaza a chunk of Egypt” idea, good response by S. Cook

The People in Gaza Challenge Sham Peace Process – Juan Cole’s Informed Comment hosts Joel Beinin op-ed

ANALYSIS: Gaza border breach shows Israel that Hamas is in charge – Haaretz analysis

?????????? ?????: ????: ???? ?? ???? ??? ??????? ????? ??? – Mahdi Akef denied that Khaled Meshaal asked him to stage Gaza siege demos

Furlough Day for Gazans (Prospects for Peace) – Daniel Levy

Appeal for the defense of individual freedoms – Moroccan liberals call for right to individual freedoms after Islamist gay witch-hunt

Egypt’s Gaza policy / A pan-Arab consensus? – Haaretz analyzes Egypt’s tough position re: Gaza and Hamas

Links January 20th and January 21st

Automatically posted links for January 20th through January 21st:

al-Qaida Solicits Questions Online – Questions include “why haven’t you opened a new front in Egypt” and more depressing idiocy

Measuring liberty | When freedom stumbles | Economist.com – Look at the charts: in 1982 Egypt was “partly free,” now it is “not free”

Economics focus | Selling sex | Economist.com – Interesting article on the economics of prostitution

HAMAS ASKS EGYPT TO REOPEN RAFAH BORDER – Hamas puts Cairo on the spot

Translating the Party of God into English – Quilty reviews Hizbullah in translation

Review: Loaded Dice by Neill Lochery – Debunking of idea that UK Foreign Office is pro-Arab or anti-Israel

The rise and decline of London as a pan-Arab media hub – Media critic Najm Jarrah

An Israeli Law for Censorship of Web Comments – Elijah points to a bill in the Knesset that would enable libel laws for web comments

Why does Johnny come marching homeless? – How Iraq veterans with psychological problems end up homeless

Those troublesome engineers « Kafr al-Hanadwa – SP has a good post on why engineers are over-represented in Islamist groups

Links for January 14th

Automatically posted links for January 14th:

Daily Kos: Bush fawns over the U.A.E. – Great takedown of Bush’s appraisal of UAE as “model society”

Total, Suez, Areva to build two nuclear plants in Abu Dhabi – The Middle East nuclear race that really matters

Bush Nudges Mideast on Democracy – Story number 129747247 on Bush abandoning democracy talk

Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel – Tiny Iranian boats not aggressive and posed no threat

Pursuing happiness behind the veil – The LAT’s Jeffrey Fleishman: king of the mixed metaphor

Islamists emerge in stifled Tunisia – Returnee mujahideen spell trouble

Kuwait set to invest as Merrill seeks $4bn – Another big Gulfie investment in top Western financial firm

EGYPT HOLDS ARMY OFFICERS FOR ‘PLOTTING ISRAEL ATTACKS’ – Now, if you were an Egyptian Islamist in the army, would it be Israel that’s your target?

EGYPT: Iraqi refugee return driven by lack of money IRIN Middle East | Middle East | Egypt | EGYPT: Iraqi refugee return driven by lack of money | Early Warning Refugees/IDPs | News Item – Iraqis fleeing death find poverty in Egypt

Links January 9th and January 10th

Automatically posted links for January 9th through January 10th:

??????? ???? ????? ????? ?????? ?????? ?«?????» ??????? – Egypt cuts subsidies on food oils, etc.

151,000 civilians killed since Iraq invasion – WHO, Iraq Gov says revises death tool (1/4 that of Lancet)

Has the Era of Cheap Oil and Food Prices Ended? – Walid Khadduri addresses top question in many Arabs’ minds

Can the Middle East sustain democracy? Middle East Strategy at Harvard – Debate on Arab democracy – Alterman, Dunne, Carpenter, etc. in comments

La rééducation des terroristes d’Arabie saoudite – Jihadi re-education: to do jihad, make sure the Saudi Gov says it’s OK

US candidates are vague on Middle East democracy – Steven Cook examines — Edwards has most concrete plans

Jacob?s Jottings: The Case of Fouad Ajami The National Interest – Another Ajami takedown, this time on his newfound Huntingtonism

Rehabilitating Libya – International Herald Tribune – Op-ed reminds of Libya’s nastiness — or does it not count when victims are not Western?

Democracy: inevitable no more – M. Albright on democracy, but she was never a supporter of Arab democracy

Saudi Calls on Sarkozy to Visit Alone – After some in Egypt were outraged by Sarko’s new girlfriend, Saudi draws the line

Links January 7th and January 8th

Automatically posted links for January 7th through January 8th:

Bhutto Killing Roils Province, Spurring Call to Quit Pakistan – WSJ.com – Sindhis outraged, some call for armed insurgency, secession!

Trip Notes from the Middle East – White House blogs during Middle East trip

The Clash – Fouad Ajami, with hindsight, agrees with Huntington and fears for West

Menassat – New NGO website on Arab media

Egypt Police Officer Jailed 5 Years – Another conviction in a police abuse case

G H A S B O U B A: Touareg Genocide – Very interesting interview (in French) of Niger Touareg leader

An American in Iran – The New York Review of Books – Max Rodenbeck visits Iran

Links for 12-18 December

Automatically posted links for December 12th through December 18th:

Democracy Digest – Newsletter on democracy developments in Arab world and elsewhere, current issue has article on MB
BBC World Service | ‘Free to Speak’ Events – Is new media the only truly independent media in the Arab world today?
GWOT: Egypt – Negar Azimi on Egypt and the “Global War On Terror”
Islamist calls for boycott of Egypt billionaire – “An Islamist shaikh on Monday called for a boycott of the companies of telecommunications billionaire Naguib Sawiris for speaking out against the influence of Islam on public life in Egypt.”
YEARENDER: In Egypt, unrest will spill over into 2008 – corrected : Middle East World – In the last few months of 2007, Egypt has experienced a series of massive workers strikes, motivated by none other than poor standards of living and lack of privileges, foreboding the beginning of a possible “uprising” by Egypt’s poor.
Incumbent Regimes and the ?King?s Dilemma? in the Arab World: Promise and Threat of Managed Reform – Carnegie report says political stagnation seen as more likely outcome if regimes not serious about reform
Arab Reform Bulletin: December 2007 – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Beyond the FaÃ§ade: Political Reform in the Arab World – New book by Carnegie Endowment
Le Monde.fr : Le 10 Ã©tait parfait pour le colonel Kadhafi – On Qadhafi’s visit to Paris coinciding with international human rights day
Anthropologists on the Front Lines – TIME – TIME looks at debates in academic community about Human Terrain Teams
The Press Association: Army chief among Beirut blast dead – Michel Suleiman successor killed

Links for December 3rd

Automatically posted links for December 3rd:

Wolfowitz Back in Govt.? – Rice appoints Wolfie to International Security Advisory Board

Younger Muslims Tune In to Upbeat Religious Message – New Egyptian televangelist is former playboy, “better than Brad Pitt”

Enquête de l?ADFM sur le port du voile : «Le hijab est un phénomène de mode au Maroc» – Study on veil in Morocco says it’s mostly about fashion, girls’ freedom

Citi of Arabia – WSJ hyperventilates about dirty Arabs buying 5% of big bank

In The Tank: Did National Review Reporter Make His Stories Up? – There is a growing dispute over the veracity of reporting from Lebanon by former Marine W. Thomas Smith, Jr. who is posting reports on his blog, The Tank, published by the conservative website, National Review Online (NRO). Smith is a supporter of the war

Links for November 29th

Automatically posted links for November 29th:

Toward a New U.S.-Middle East Strategy – Saban Center (eeekh!) and CFR team up for Mideast policy recommendations for next prez

Foes Use Obama’s Muslim Ties to Fuel Rumors About Him – washingtonpost.com – “Obama aides sharply disputed the initial stories suggesting that he was a Muslim, and in Iowa, the campaign keeps a letter at its offices, signed by five members of the local clergy, vouching for the candidate’s Christian faith.” I like these conspiracy

1973 U.S. Cable on Mideast Mirrors Current Events – washingtonpost.com – “In January 1974, with the Watergate scandal making headlines, Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat wrote in a secret letter to Faisal that President Richard M. Nixon “could easily be impeached” and that “Arabs must do everything they can to strengthen” Nixon, a

Seven Years for Murder – More Egyptian police officers sentenced for torture

Trappist Command: Thou Shalt Not Buy Too Much of Our Beer – WSJ.com – I have had this beer, and it really is something else. It tingles against your palate and feels incredibly velvety and smooth. The bizarre sensation lingers a long time, numbing your mouth, and its bouquet is very subtle for such a strong beer, with very

L?affaire du faux mariage homosexuel s?avère être une manipulation politique – This article (from a very pro-regime newspaper) accuses the Islamist movement in Morocco that is close to the PJD of nearly lynching a man involved in a rather sordid affair of “homosexual marriage” in northern Morocco. If you check at-Tajdid, the PJD-fri

??? ????? – The site of Muslim Brotherhood activist and blogger Ahmed Mohsen, who was arrested in Fayoum along with 25 people who were apparently planning their strategy to contest next year’s municipal elections

New term for Egypt CB governor – al-Okdah’s reappointment should squash persistent rumors that he is in the running for becoming PM. Nazif probably to stay for another year at least

Saudis See Potential for Influence in Sharif – WSJ.com – An interesting look at Saudi policy towards Pak, based on the fall of Musharraf

Al Jadid Magazine – New issue of US-based Arab culture mag out, including a look at the World Press Photo pic from Lebanon, an interview with Alaa al-Aswany, and a lot more

Links for November 26th

Automatically posted links for November 26th:

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Foul times ahead for Egypt’s bean staple – Alarmist predictions for fuul. Actually a lot comes from China nowadays, like everything else
Why the Arab street? Ã‚ – Rami Khouri says the Arab street has changed, is essentially a mixture of nationalism and islamism, and counts for something
International Crisis Group – Darfur?s New Security Reality – Report says Darfur situation getting worse, blames all parties, calls for sanctions all-round
Ghassan Charbel on Lebanon – Al Hayat – “The Lebanese formula is by all means unique. It is a Tabbouleh plate whose ingredients have to be carefully weighed. Too much bulgur and it is an indigestion. Foreign parsley ruins its pleasure. The oil and onions have to be carefully handled, and the to
The Alliance of Egyptian Americans – New group seeks to foster democratic change

Links for November 24th

Automatically posted links for November 24th:

Pakistan Alerted U.S. It Planned Emergency Rule – WSJ.com – Bhutto: “My question is: If the U.S., which is giving more than $10 billion in aid, can’t get him to lift emergency rule… what’s the point of my negotiating with him?”

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE BUT NOT A DROP TO DRINK – Water scarcity in Egypt, with predictable social segregation

Bent Al Maiidi, la Mona Lisa du Moyen-Orient | Babelmed – The Mona Lisa of the Middle East

Returnees Find a Capital Transformed – washingtonpost.com – Drop in violence is encouraging some Iraqis to return

Morocco strong, but not the same – Variety – Morocco gets big Hollywood movies because others in region censor

Morocco celebrates 50 years of film – Variety – Film festival celebrates Egyptian cinema

Saudi Rights Lawyer Sidelined – washingtonpost.com – Courageous Saudi lawyer gets the “hurting the country’s image” treatment

Robert Kagan – Musharraf and the Con Game – Another Musharaf-Mubarak comparison

Where Boys Grow Up to Be Jihadis – Long NYT piece on how youth from Tetouan became mujahideen