{"id":1755,"date":"2006-11-16T11:13:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T11:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2006-11-16T11:13:26","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T11:13:26","slug":"2006-11-16-around-the-web-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1755","title":{"rendered":"Around the web"},"content":{"rendered":"
A collection of interesting stories and sites collected in the last week or so.<\/p>\n

– Words Without Borders<\/a> has a special issue on Palestine this month.<\/p>\n

– NYT: For Evangelicals, Supporting Israel Is ‘God’s Foreign Policy’<\/a>
How evangelicals and Elliott Abrams heart each other. The article also says that the right-wing Jerusalem Post recently started an edition for American Christians.<\/p>\n

– WaPo: Support Builds for Libyan Dissident<\/a>
The case of Fathi al-Jahmi, the Libyan dissident imprisoned for meeting with a US diplomat. Will the US push for his release or stay quiet because it fears losing oil business?<\/p>\n

– Carnegie: Jordan and Its Islamic Movement: The Limits of Inclusion?<\/a>
New report by Nathan Brown.<\/p>\n

– LRB: The Least Accountable Regime in the Middle East<\/a>
Survey of US spending in Iraq, misuse of funds, etc. based on US government info.<\/p>\n

– Maps of War: The Middle East<\/a>
Fantastic animated map of different empires control of the Middle East over time.<\/p>\n

– NYRB: How Terrible Is It?<\/a>
Max Rodenbeck looks at recent books and official documents on the war on terror, giving you a 12-point rundown of their major points so you don’t have to read them. Nice!<\/p>\n

– CCC: The Virtual Ummah<\/a>
Military think tank looks at Jihadis on the internet and TV, notably al-Jazeera.<\/p>\n

– French political scientist Olivier Da Lage has a new book out: Géopolitique de l’Arabie Saoudite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

– Mother Jones: Rumsfeld’s Replacement: The Robert Gates File<\/a><\/p>\n

– HRW: Building Towers, Cheating Workers<\/a>
A report on the “Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in the United Arab Emirates,” is out,a s is a photo essay<\/a> full of striking pictures. And an FT report <\/a>on the same.<\/p>\n

– WaPo: Michael Dirda<\/a> on Irwin on Said. (More about that here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

– Nation: A Civilizing Mission<\/a>
Review of Eqbal Ahmad’s collected works.<\/p>\n

– Guardian: Luxury timeshares on offer at Islam’s holiest pilgrimage site<\/a>
The Bin Laden Group’s new luxury resort in Mecca, ZamZam Tower.<\/p>\n

– Figaro: Le pétrole conforte le pouvoir soudanais<\/a>
Tanguy Berthemet reports from Sudan on China’s growing power there and how oil money is sheltering the regime.<\/p>\n

– Political Comics<\/a>
Cartoon blog does cool caricatures of people in the news. Controversial, here’s the one of Sheikh Yassin (click to enlarge).<\/p>\n

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A collection of interesting stories and sites collected in the last week or so.
\n– Words Without Borders<\/a> has a special issue on Palestine this month.
\n– NYT: For Evangelicals, Supporting Israel Is ‘God’s Foreign Policy’<\/a>
\nHow evangelicals and Elliott Abrams heart each other. The article also says that the right-wing Jerusalem Post recently started an edition for American Christians.
\n– WaPo: Support Builds for Libyan Dissident<\/a>
\nThe case of Fathi al-Jahmi, the Libyan dissident imprisoned for meeting with a US diplomat. Will the US push for his release or stay quiet because it fears losing oil business?
\n– Carnegie: Jordan and Its Islamic Movement: The Limits of Inclusion?<\/a>
\nNew report by Nathan Brown.
\n– LRB: The Least Accountable Regime in the Middle East<\/a>
\nSurvey of US spending in Iraq, misuse of funds, etc. based on US government info.
\n– Maps of War: The Middle East<\/a>
\nFantastic animated map of different empires control of the Middle East over time.
\n– NYRB: How Terrible Is It?<\/a>
\nMax Rodenbeck looks at recent books and official documents on the war on terror, giving you a 12-point rundown of their major points so you don’t have to read them. Nice!
\n– CCC: The Virtual Ummah<\/a>
\nMilitary think tank looks at Jihadis on the internet and TV, notably al-Jazeera.
\n– French political scientist Olivier Da Lage has a new book out: Géopolitique de l’Arabie Saoudite<\/a>.
\n– Mother Jones: Rumsfeld’s Replacement: The Robert Gates File<\/a>
\n– HRW: Building Towers, Cheating Workers<\/a>
\nA report on the “Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in the United Arab Emirates,” is out,a s is a photo essay<\/a> full of striking pictures. And an FT report <\/a>on the same.
\n– WaPo: Michael Dirda<\/a> on Irwin on Said. (More about that here<\/a>.)
\n– Nation: A Civilizing Mission<\/a>
\nReview of Eqbal Ahmad’s collected works.
\n– Guardian: Luxury timeshares on offer at Islam’s holiest pilgrimage site<\/a>
\nThe Bin Laden Group’s new luxury resort in Mecca, ZamZam Tower.
\n– Figaro: Le pétrole conforte le pouvoir soudanais<\/a>
\nTanguy Berthemet reports from Sudan on China’s growing power there and how oil money is sheltering the regime.
\n– Political Comics<\/a>
\nCartoon blog does cool caricatures of people in the news. Controversial, here’s the one of Sheikh Yassin (click to enlarge).
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