@ursulind on a new wave of frustration and migration from Morocco
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Tag: migration
Building Fortress Europe | Cairo Review
Parastou Hastouri on Europe’s migration policies.
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Migrants : l’Europe à la dérive | Libération
Excellent overview of EU migration debate, which seems to boil down for Macron-Merkel to processing camps for migrants in Southern Europe and North Africa (neither wants them).
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Conventional Humanitarian Solutions Fail the Test
Parastou Hassouri in MERIP on the untenable current system for helping refugees
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Dans la région de Sfax, les familles entre colère et deuil après le naufrage de leurs enfants partis pour l’Europe
Over 50 dead after migrant tragedy in Tunisia
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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