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Links for January 13th

Automatically posted links for January 13th:

Arab Stereotypes in American Film – Jack Shaheen short

Barack Obama – I’m sure we’ve seen him somewhere before – Armando Iannucci on Obama: it’s dead on

Comment is free: Laughing at dictatorship – Ibrahim Hudaibi on Mubarak jokes

Arabs eye £500m Liverpool buy-out | Sport | The Observer – Dubai group to buy Liverpool FC

Citi Looking Abroad For Major Investors – WSJ.com – Waleed Bin Talal to invest

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