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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 January 29th and February 3rd

Automatically posted links for January 29th through February 3rd:

Qatar reports new damage to Gulf undersea cables – Fourth time in a week – I think there’s a conspiracy afoot

Libya Sovereign Wealth Fund to Shun U.S., Ghanem Says – Qadhafi puts his country’s money elsewhere

Ezzedine Choukri: “?? ???? ????? ?? ????? ???? ??? ?” – Rafah episode shows current situation is losing one for all

The path of centrist political Islam by Khalil Al-Anani – Al-Anani says MB hopeless, Wasat way forward

Robert Fisk: The curious case of the forged biography – Fisk, hagiographer of Saddam Hussein

Making a Great Arab City – I like this Rami Khouri piece on Dubai even though I am skeptical, because it praises the tradition of Arab cosmopolitan urbanism

Arab Media Watch Arab Media Watch > Home – UK outfit combats anti-Arab bias in press

Hamas explodes a giant hole in Egypt’s political cover – Op-ed takes Egypt’s hypocrisy on Palestine to task

It’s time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton – Faraday prize winner defends historic Arab scholarship

For sale: West?s deadly nuclear secrets – Whistleblower says top US officials sold nuke secrets to Pakistan (the person is not named in the article, but others say it’s Marc Grossman)

Al-Jazeera Journalist Arrested in Egypt – Howeida Taha arrested, again

AFP: Egypt censors book fair – Mohammed Choukri, Milan Kundera, Elias Khoury, Hanan al-Sheikh censored from Cairo Book Fair.

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