Excellent piece by @ursulind on a nearly forgotten and truly original Moroccan film-maker and writer, Ahmed Bouanani
Read it here
Tag: film
The Arabist
@ursulind’s excellent piece on the Moroccan writer and film-maker Ahmed Bouanani, in the NYRB: https://ift.tt/2qAadqG
Read it here
Links for November 28th
Automatically posted links for November 27-28th:
- Critical writer jailed in Tunisia – On Monday, police in Sfax, Tunisia’s second largest city, detained Slim Boukhdhir, a well-known blogger and contributor to the London-based Al-Quds Al Arabi.
- ‘Aqoul: Hirsi Ali: Ideological Chameleon – Holy CRAP! Hirsi Ali’s rightward shift
- tabsir.net » Al Qaeda?s generational split – Yemeni tactics for splitting jihadist groups
- Talking Points | National Security Network – Website of reality-based security types
- Le Monde.fr : Une vidéo-amateur contredit la version de la police sur l’accident de Villiers-le-Bel – Amateur video indicates initial shock of police car against motorbike not very violent, car was damaged with metal bars afterwards and police is lying about it
- WHO’S WHO OF PREZ CAMPAIGN SECURITY ADVISERS – New list of security / FP advisors to US presidential candidates, surprisingly does not include the more well-known rabid neocons in Rudy’s list
- Hillary Clinton’s advisers too gung-ho on Iraq war, critics say – Is Hillary Clinton the hawk masquerading as the dove?
- ‘Not very good’ Saddam spy gets 4 years – Yahoo! News – More examples of the terrible threat to the US that Saddam represented. Hmm, let me think, what other Middle Eastern country successfully infiltrated spies in critical national security institutions?
- Police say Paris rioters are armed as clashes escalate – Officials in Paris last night warned that rioters in the suburb of Villiers-le-Bel were armed with hunting rifles and air rifles as clashes with police continued to escalate.
- Boom fuels new Saudi spending spree | Business | The Guardian – Annual revenues of $165bn are funding six new cities to create jobs – but can it last?
- Cairo International Film Festival – Home Page – Schedules, events, etc. (apparently Morocco is focus of festival)
- In Annapolis, Conflict by Other Means by Robert Blecher and Mouin Rabbani – “As for the Annapolis meeting itself, it is being greeted with indifference, with few believing it will lead to either meaningful change in their daily lives or substantive progress toward the end of an Israeli occupation now in its fifth decade.”
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
Del.icio.us links for November 21st
Automatically posted links for November 21st:
- مجمع البØوث الإسلامية يواÙ�Ù‚ علي نشر «الإسلام هو الØل» وكتب إخوانية لـ«البنا» و«مشهور» – Egypt Islamic council authorizes publication of Ikhwan publications – this will have the conspiracy theorists going!
- “U.S. Seeks to Prosecute Pulitzer Prize Winning A.P. Photographer” by Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine) – Pentagon to put AP photog on trial on dubious charges
- خلص ! :: من Ù†ØÙ† – Khalass! campaign in Lebanon, civil society urges politicians to resolve differences
- Beirut Is Not Tehran – Exum and McInerney on why the US should change policy in Lebanon
- Space Age Wudu – Ablution device from the future
- FT.com / World – Sharif hopes to end Saudi exile – Saudis pushing for Sharif as PM in Pakistan, against US wishes
- Islamists Today: Brotherhood Youth: A time bomb – Khalil al-Anani on the generational divide in the MB
- YouTube – Musharraf’s crackdown on media – Al Jazeera report on crackdown on press, possible UAE collaboration
- Meeting Resistance: A film by Steve Connors & Molly Bingham – Movie about the Iraqi underground, has insider footage of insurgent cells