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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Month: June 2018
Early Elections Would Be a Disaster | Foreign Affairs
Frederic Wehrey and Wolfram Lacher – yup!
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Malley and Finer’s Foreign Affairs Article “The Long Shadow of 9/11,” Annotated
by Alex Thurston of the Sahel Blog
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The Long Shadow of 9/11
Rob Malley and Jon Finer on US counter-terrorism policy
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Who gets to tell Iraq’s history?
Avi Asher-Shapiro on the NYT ISIS document affair.
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The Brief, Particular Cruelty of Morocco’s Own Goal
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La politique du feuilleton (1/2) : l’Égypte et sa police
There were six series praising the police on Egyptian TV this Ramadan.
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Libyan army arrests former bin Laden driver Abu Sufian bin Qumu in Derna
I really wonder why he is considered one of the most important people in Al Qaeda if he was just OBL’s drivers.
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The outrageous racism that ‘graced’ Arab TV screens in Ramadan
Ramadan series think blackface is funny.
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The Mask It Wears
Pankaj Mishra on liberal internationalism.
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