{"id":2920,"date":"2009-02-28T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2009-02-28T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T11:00:38","slug":"2009-2-28-links-february-26th-to-february-28th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2920","title":{"rendered":"Links February 26th to February 28th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for February 26th through February 28th:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/allthegoodnameshadgone.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/akunt.html\">Inanities: Akunt<\/a> &#8211; Sarah Carr&#39;s account of the dismal failure that was the Akon concert in Cairo.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=10&amp;categ_id=5&amp;article_id=99618#\">The Daily Star &#8211; Opinion Articles &#8211; A framework for an enhanced international role in Gaza<\/a> &#8211; Ezzedine Choukri offers suggestions on how the international community should approach Gaza&#39;s reconstruction and push for Palestinian reconciliation.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1067306.html\">British author: Rabin asked Jordan to arrange secret visit with Saddam &#8211; Haaretz &#8211; Israel News<\/a> &#8211; &quot;In early summer 1995, a few months before his assassination, prime minister Yitzhak Rabin asked Jordan&#39;s King Hussein to approach Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on his behalf and arrange a joint visit by Rabin and Hussein to Baghdad, according to Nigel Ashton, author of &quot;King Hussein: A political Life&quot; (Yale University Press). &quot;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/112408-mendelsohnreadings.mp3\">Cavafy read out on NYRB<\/a> &#8211; Daniel Mendelsohn reads three selections from his new translation of Cavafy: &quot;Nero&#39;s Deadline,&quot; &quot;One of Their Gods,&quot; and &quot;Myres: Alexandria in 340 AD.&quot; [MP3]<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.worldbank.org\/WBSITE\/EXTERNAL\/COUNTRIES\/MENAEXT\/0,,contentMDK:22069140~pagePK:146736~piPK:146830~theSitePK:256299,00.html\">Middle East and North Africa &#8211; Update on the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Arab Countries<\/a> &#8211; World Bank sees return of migrant workers from GCC, weakening social safety nets in non-oil export high population countries, leading to rising social pressures on governments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for February 26th through February 28th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/allthegoodnameshadgone.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/akunt.html\">Inanities: Akunt<\/a> &#8211; Sarah Carr&#39;s account of the dismal failure that was the Akon concert in Cairo.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=10&amp;categ_id=5&amp;article_id=99618#\">The Daily Star &#8211; Opinion Articles &#8211; A framework for an enhanced international role in Gaza<\/a> &#8211; Ezzedine Choukri offers suggestions on how the international community should approach Gaza&#39;s reconstruction and push for Palestinian reconciliation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1067306.html\">British author: Rabin asked Jordan to arrange secret visit with Saddam &#8211; Haaretz &#8211; Israel News<\/a> &#8211; &quot;In early summer 1995, a few months before his assassination, prime minister Yitzhak Rabin asked Jordan&#39;s King Hussein to approach Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on his behalf and arrange a joint visit by Rabin and Hussein to Baghdad, according to Nigel Ashton, author of &quot;King Hussein: A political Life&quot; (Yale University Press). &quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/112408-mendelsohnreadings.mp3\">Cavafy read out on NYRB<\/a> &#8211; Daniel Mendelsohn reads three selections from his new translation of Cavafy: &quot;Nero&#39;s Deadline,&quot; &quot;One of Their Gods,&quot; and &quot;Myres: Alexandria in 340 AD.&quot; [MP3]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.worldbank.org\/WBSITE\/EXTERNAL\/COUNTRIES\/MENAEXT\/0,,contentMDK:22069140~pagePK:146736~piPK:146830~theSitePK:256299,00.html\">Middle East and North Africa &#8211; Update on the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Arab Countries<\/a> &#8211; World Bank sees return of migrant workers from GCC, weakening social safety nets in non-oil export high population countries, leading to rising social pressures on governments.<\/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\/2920"}],"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=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}