Musab Younis on the sexual fetishization of Arab men in France
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Tag: france
France aiding Egypt repression through arms sales: NGOs | Al Jazeera
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How the Tariq Ramadan Scandal Derailed the #Balancetonporc Movement in France | The New Yorker
Had forgotten to link to this excellent Adam Shatz piece of how France turned discussion of sexual abuse against women into a controversy over Islam
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Links February 17th to February 19th
Links for February 17th through February 19th:
- Jazeera slams TV crackdown – FT on new satellite TV restrictions
- TelQuel : Avoir 20 ans à la campagne – Life for young people in the (extremely poor) Moroccan countryside
- Moscou accuse Paris de saborder le contrat des Mig – Algeria-Russia fracas over Mig contract; France suspected of meddling
- Pharaonic Pump Sits Idle as Egypt Fails to Lure Farms to Desert
Bloomberg.com:
Europe – Whatever happened to Toshka? - Middle East Report Online: Disengagement and the Frontiers of Zionism by Darryl Li – "FROM BANTUSTAN TO INTERNMENT CAMP TO ANIMAL PEN"
- The BAE files | World news | guardian.co.uk – Guardian collection of articles on BAE case
- Hamas tells Egypt it is ready to discuss truce with Israel, Shalit deal – "Hamas said Friday it has told Egyptian officials it would consider a cease-fire with Israel if it lifted its blockade of the Gaza Strip and ceased military operations in the West Bank and Gaza."
- UN shocked by 'grim' life in Gaza – "80% of Gaza's 1.5m population now depended on food aid."
Links February 4th to February 5th
Automatically posted links for February 4th through February 5th:
- The Experiment in Gaza — In These Times – Argues blockade is about breaking the Pals’ backs
- Bernard Kouchner – Profiled in the NYT, a bit silly at times but interesting
- The Strangulation of Gaza – The Nation on how Israel decided to put, in Dov Weiglass word’s, Gaza on a diet
- Israeli Apartheid Week 2008 – Official site of movement, events across the world
- Annals of National Security: A Strike in the Dark – Hersh on the disinformation campaign around Israel’s raid on Syria
- Libyans advance in Al Qaeda network – Because people tend to forget that over half of Arabs are in North Africa
Links December 19th and January 5th
Automatically posted links for December 19th through January 5th:
- Fashion and Faith Meet, on Foreheads of the Pious – NYT article from Dec 2007 on that bizarre Egyptian fetish, the zebibah
- Al Jazeera appelée à présenter ses excuses – Al Jazeera called on by its Algerian staff to apologize for poll about Algiers attacks
- Le Monde.fr : Le Dakar 2008 a été annulé – Paris-Dakar race cancelled for first time because of “al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb” threats
- Benazir Bhutto | Economist.com – A good obituary
- AFP: Egyptian woman in legal test of SMS divorce: report – Woman argues third divorce SMS makes it legal
- Guardian’s Tehran correspondent expelled without explanation – Robert Tait kicked out of Iran
- Anti-Zionist author kicks off speaking tour of Lebanon – Norman Finkelstein tour
- Du Nil à la Seine, l’étrange destin des Badraouis – Unusual story about an Egyptian village that specializes in emigrating to France
- U.S. envoy Jones starts Mideast security push – New American governor of Palestine arrives
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 Fa̤ade: Political Reform in the Arab World РNew book by Carnegie Endowment
- Le Monde.fr : Le 10 était 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 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.”
Del.icio.us links for November 20th
Automatically posted links for November 20th:
- List of invitees to Mideast peace talks – Yahoo! News – How do I get an invite?
- Obama: I tried drugs as a teen (AP) – Kids: do drugs and drink, it doesn’t matter you might still be president or at least senator.
- Divorce in Egypt every six minutes (iafrica.com) –
- Islamists Today: The Man Who Once Secretly Ruled the Islamic Jihad Speaks out – Khalil Enani looks at the man at the center of the Islamic Jihad recantation
- The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Annapolis and After – ICG report suggests getting serious in Annapolis, notably by including Hamas and Syria
- Sandmonkey Tales: Abdel Monem and me – Sandmonkey is stirring shit again…
- In West Bank, Checkpoints Splinter Palestinian Economy – WSJ.com – West Bank economy “shattered”, says World Bank
- Wealthy Nations In Gulf Rethink Peg to Dollar – WSJ.com – To peg or not to peg?
- FOXNews.com – Egyptian Woman Files for Divorce Over Husband’s Refusal to Shower – Another great headline
- Le Monde.fr : Les bars a  narguilés menacés de fermeture le 1er janvier – France to close down shisha bars