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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 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 January 27th and January 28th

Automatically posted links for January 27th through January 28th:

The Root | TheRoot.com – New African-American webzine

Mort de George Habache – Carnets du Diplo – Alain Gresh

Obituary: George Habash – David Hirst

Killer noise pollution in Egypt – Average Downtown Cairo “like spending the day in a factory”

Iran’s Literature Today – Contemporary Iranian lit in translations (and the original)

US MILITARY BREAKS RANKS, Part 1 –

US MILITARY BREAKS RANKS, Part 2 – Mark Perry on Iraq, the surge and military bureaucratic politics

Egypt takes offers for nuclear project – Let the race for contracts begin

Links for January 22nd

Automatically posted links for January 22nd:

Defusing the Gaza Time Bomb – Rob Malley op-ed on Gaza

L’Iran soupçonné de traficde matière radioactive – Uzbek catch shipment of Cesium 137 on train, Iran suspected

THE ANNAPOLIS OPENING HAS CLOSED – Former Israel negotiator with Syria explains why another opportunity for new peace track has gone

BibliOdyssey: Arabic Machine Manuscript – Beautiful images of ancient books on science

La base de l?Africom sera installée au Maroc – Algeria’s Liberte says AFRICOM base will be in southern Morocco

Internal Memo Takes on Obama?s Approach to Middle East – Jewish organizations uneasy about Obama?

Guys, I’m afraid we haven’t got a clue … – The first of three extracts from Jonathan Steele’s new book on how Britain went to war in Iraq utterly unprepared

ei: Where does it end? – Abunimah on the siege of Gaza

Links for January 14th

Automatically posted links for January 14th:

Daily Kos: Bush fawns over the U.A.E. – Great takedown of Bush’s appraisal of UAE as “model society”

Total, Suez, Areva to build two nuclear plants in Abu Dhabi – The Middle East nuclear race that really matters

Bush Nudges Mideast on Democracy – Story number 129747247 on Bush abandoning democracy talk

Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel – Tiny Iranian boats not aggressive and posed no threat

Pursuing happiness behind the veil – The LAT’s Jeffrey Fleishman: king of the mixed metaphor

Islamists emerge in stifled Tunisia – Returnee mujahideen spell trouble

Kuwait set to invest as Merrill seeks $4bn – Another big Gulfie investment in top Western financial firm

EGYPT HOLDS ARMY OFFICERS FOR ‘PLOTTING ISRAEL ATTACKS’ – Now, if you were an Egyptian Islamist in the army, would it be Israel that’s your target?

EGYPT: Iraqi refugee return driven by lack of money IRIN Middle East | Middle East | Egypt | EGYPT: Iraqi refugee return driven by lack of money | Early Warning Refugees/IDPs | News Item – Iraqis fleeing death find poverty in Egypt

Links for January 11th

Automatically posted links for January 11th:

Islam and democracy | The practice?and the theory | Economist.com – Rather flawed piece since it alleges democracy not discussed in Muslim lands

The Arabs | Between fitna, fawda and the deep blue sea | Economist.com – “IT IS not easy to be an Arab these days”

George MacDonald Fraser – Economist obituary of Flashman creator

ACLU: Court Rejects Government?s Attempt to Deport Egyptian to Torture – Egyptian convert successfully claims torture is likely if sent back to Egypt

House Leaders Vow Tough Stance on Iran – Tom Lantos potential successors just as gung-ho on Israel

Torture In Egypt: The Nadeem Center?s Report at 3arabawy – Hossam has torture report available for download

Egypt names site of first nuclear reactor – It’s Dabaa, whatever the real estate speculators wanted!

CIA: We said back in 1974 that Israel had nuclear weapons – But in Seymour Hersh’s “Samson Option” it’s clear the US knew, but did not want to hear, in late 1960s

25 Simply Amazing Mosques – List includes many modern mosques, but what about Hassan II in Casablanca?

Threat To Cut U.S. Aid Opens Rift With Egypt – Forward looks at Egypt’s accusations at Israel lobby