{"id":2378,"date":"2007-10-10T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T09:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2007-10-10T09:26:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T09:26:46","slug":"2007-10-10-links-for-101007-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2378","title":{"rendered":"Links for 10\/10\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">A fragrant potpourri handpicked from the internets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mondediplo.com\/2007\/10\/04empire\">The sun sets early on the American Century, by Philip S Golub<\/a> (Twilight of empire)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/intellibriefs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/egypt-security-political-and-islamist.html\">IntelliBriefs: Egypt: Security, Political, and Islamist Challenges<\/a> (Long paper on Egypt)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/07\/magazine\/07MAKIYA-t.html?_r=1&#38;oref=slogin&#38;ref=world&#38;pagewanted=all\">Iraq &#8211; Kanan Makiya &#8211; Saddam Hussein &#8211; New York Times<\/a> (Dexter Filkins profiles Kanan Makiya)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2007\/10\/hbc-90001382\">&#8220;Cervantes&#8217;s Golden Age&#8221; by Scott Horton (Harper&#8217;s Magazine)<\/a> (Don Quijote, early music, Andalusia)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20071009\/ts_nm\/pakistan_qaeda_dc\">Bin Laden may be in city, not cave: ex-spy chief<\/a> (Urban Osama?)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2007\/10\/hbc-90001385\">&#8220;Facts and Darfur&#8221; by Ken Silverstein (Harper&#8217;s Magazine)<\/a> (Spinning Darfur)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/richard_silverstein\/2007\/10\/land_of_the_free.html\">Comment is free: Land of the free?<\/a> (Richard Silverstein on the Lobby)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/10\/09\/islam\">Inside Higher Ed :: Are You Ready for &#8216;Islamo-Fascism Week&#8217;?<\/a> (It&#8217;s that time of the year again)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regarding the last item, you may be interested to follow the GWU controversy over the poster below (put up by anti-&#8216;Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week&#8217; activists) over at the<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AngryArab\/~3\/167756846\/for-sign-of-how-easily-rhetoric-about.html\"> Angry Arab<\/a>. Also since our friend <a href=\"http:\/\/abuaardvark.typepad.com\/abuaardvark\/\">Abu Aardvark<\/a> is at GWU, he may have more info (once he recovers from his <a href=\"http:\/\/abuaardvark.typepad.com\/abuaardvark\/2007\/10\/doing-dialogue-.html\">Ikhwan marathon<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2007\/10\/19t489nj-tm.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.arabist.net\/wp-content\/\/2007\/10\/19t489nj.jpg','popup','width=500,height=647,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2007\/10\/19t489nj-tm.jpg\" height=\"517\" width=\"400\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"19T489Nj\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">A fragrant potpourri handpicked from the internets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mondediplo.com\/2007\/10\/04empire\">The sun sets early on the American Century, by Philip S Golub<\/a> (Twilight of empire)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/intellibriefs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/egypt-security-political-and-islamist.html\">IntelliBriefs: Egypt: Security, Political, and Islamist Challenges<\/a> (Long paper on Egypt)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/07\/magazine\/07MAKIYA-t.html?_r=1&#38;oref=slogin&#38;ref=world&#38;pagewanted=all\">Iraq &#8211; Kanan Makiya &#8211; Saddam Hussein &#8211; New York Times<\/a> (Dexter Filkins profiles Kanan Makiya)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2007\/10\/hbc-90001382\">&#8220;Cervantes&#8217;s Golden Age&#8221; by Scott Horton (Harper&#8217;s Magazine)<\/a> (Don Quijote, early music, Andalusia)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20071009\/ts_nm\/pakistan_qaeda_dc\">Bin Laden may be in city, not cave: ex-spy chief<\/a> (Urban Osama?)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2007\/10\/hbc-90001385\">&#8220;Facts and Darfur&#8221; by Ken Silverstein (Harper&#8217;s Magazine)<\/a> (Spinning Darfur)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/richard_silverstein\/2007\/10\/land_of_the_free.html\">Comment is free: Land of the free?<\/a> (Richard Silverstein on the Lobby)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/10\/09\/islam\">Inside Higher Ed :: Are You Ready for &#8216;Islamo-Fascism Week&#8217;?<\/a> (It&#8217;s that time of the year again)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regarding the last item, you may be interested to follow the GWU controversy over the poster below (put up by anti-&#8216;Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week&#8217; activists) over at the<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AngryArab\/~3\/167756846\/for-sign-of-how-easily-rhetoric-about.html\"> Angry Arab<\/a>. Also since our friend <a href=\"http:\/\/abuaardvark.typepad.com\/abuaardvark\/\">Abu Aardvark<\/a> is at GWU, he may have more info (once he recovers from his <a href=\"http:\/\/abuaardvark.typepad.com\/abuaardvark\/2007\/10\/doing-dialogue-.html\">Ikhwan marathon<\/a>).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2007\/10\/19t489nj-tm.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.arabist.net\/wp-content\/\/2007\/10\/19t489nj.jpg','popup','width=500,height=647,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2007\/10\/19t489nj-tm.jpg\" height=\"517\" width=\"400\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"19T489Nj\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}