{"id":2777,"date":"2008-11-17T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2008-11-17T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T17:00:09","slug":"2008-11-17-links-for-november-17th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2777","title":{"rendered":"Links for November 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for November 17th:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ibnyaaqubalamriki.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/egypts-top-judge.html\">Ibn Yaaqub Al-Amriki: Egypt&#8217;s Top Judge<\/a> &#8211; Someone&#39;s caught on to the fact that Zakaria Abdel Aziz, the renegade Egyptian judge, is an Islamo-populist. I remember hearing him speak after the MB (rightly, courageously) defended the judges in 2006 and being astounded by his hyper-religious speech. But then again I never thought we should expect too much from Egyptian judges.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/booksale\/subjects\/mes.html\">Princeton University Press Special Online Sale Books in Middle Eastern Studies<\/a> &#8211; PUP has big online sale &#8211; this links to the Middle Eastern Studies section.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/16\/AR2008111601735.html\">Jackson Diehl &#8211; Jackson Diehl Says Obama Will Have to Decide If He&#8217;s on the Side of Democratic Reformers in the Middle East &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a> &#8211; Egypt-basher Diehl challenges Obama to keep up the Bush democracy promotion agenda, with an eye on Egypt&#39;s next presidential elections.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1037578.html\">Top Obama aide denies report president-elect will back Arab peace plan &#8211; Haaretz &#8211; Israel News<\/a> &#8211; Maybe he did back it, maybe he didn&#39;t. But once president he most definitely should.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5iUPlfwmpZQojpaJ52FODTGzVY10gD949GLU80\">The Associated Press: Gadhafi: nations competing to sell arms to Libya<\/a> &#8211; Interesting Qadhafi line from the end of that story: &quot;Everything that is happening now was written in the Green Book 30 years ago already,&quot; Gadhafi said at a news conference in the Ukrainian capital. &quot;And the Green Book says that dark-skinned people will rule the world.&quot;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/16\/magazine\/16rice-t.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;ref=magazine&amp;pagewanted=all\">Welcome to My World, Barack &#8211; An Exit Interview with Condoleezza Rice &#8211; Interview &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Condi Rice&#39;s advice to Obama on democracy promotion: &quot;The Egyptians know that their next election is going to be an important transitional election. I think they&rsquo;re going to insist on a different kind of election.&quot; And how will they &quot;insist&quot;, then?<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lesa-3aish.blogspot.com\/\">\u0644\u0633\u0647 \u0639\u0627\u064a\u0634<\/a> &#8211; Blog of Amr Salama, Sinai University student whom security recently arrested and stopped from running in university elections. [Arabic]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for November 17th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ibnyaaqubalamriki.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/egypts-top-judge.html\">Ibn Yaaqub Al-Amriki: Egypt&#8217;s Top Judge<\/a> &#8211; Someone&#39;s caught on to the fact that Zakaria Abdel Aziz, the renegade Egyptian judge, is an Islamo-populist. I remember hearing him speak after the MB (rightly, courageously) defended the judges in 2006 and being astounded by his hyper-religious speech. But then again I never thought we should expect too much from Egyptian judges.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/booksale\/subjects\/mes.html\">Princeton University Press Special Online Sale Books in Middle Eastern Studies<\/a> &#8211; PUP has big online sale &#8211; this links to the Middle Eastern Studies section.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/16\/AR2008111601735.html\">Jackson Diehl &#8211; Jackson Diehl Says Obama Will Have to Decide If He&#8217;s on the Side of Democratic Reformers in the Middle East &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a> &#8211; Egypt-basher Diehl challenges Obama to keep up the Bush democracy promotion agenda, with an eye on Egypt&#39;s next presidential elections.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1037578.html\">Top Obama aide denies report president-elect will back Arab peace plan &#8211; Haaretz &#8211; Israel News<\/a> &#8211; Maybe he did back it, maybe he didn&#39;t. But once president he most definitely should.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5iUPlfwmpZQojpaJ52FODTGzVY10gD949GLU80\">The Associated Press: Gadhafi: nations competing to sell arms to Libya<\/a> &#8211; Interesting Qadhafi line from the end of that story: &quot;Everything that is happening now was written in the Green Book 30 years ago already,&quot; Gadhafi said at a news conference in the Ukrainian capital. &quot;And the Green Book says that dark-skinned people will rule the world.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/16\/magazine\/16rice-t.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;ref=magazine&amp;pagewanted=all\">Welcome to My World, Barack &#8211; An Exit Interview with Condoleezza Rice &#8211; Interview &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Condi Rice&#39;s advice to Obama on democracy promotion: &quot;The Egyptians know that their next election is going to be an important transitional election. I think they&rsquo;re going to insist on a different kind of election.&quot; And how will they &quot;insist&quot;, then?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lesa-3aish.blogspot.com\/\">\u0644\u0633\u0647 \u0639\u0627\u064a\u0634<\/a> &#8211; Blog of Amr Salama, Sinai University student whom security recently arrested and stopped from running in university elections. [Arabic]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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\/2777"}],"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=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}