Links January 20th and January 21st

Automatically posted links for January 20th through January 21st:

• al-Qaida Solicits Questions Online - Questions include "why haven't you opened a new front in Egypt" and more depressing idiocy


• Measuring liberty | When freedom stumbles | Economist.com - Look at the charts: in 1982 Egypt was "partly free," now it is "not free"


• Economics focus | Selling sex | Economist.com - Interesting article on the economics of prostitution


• HAMAS ASKS EGYPT TO REOPEN RAFAH BORDER - Hamas puts Cairo on the spot


• Translating the Party of God into English - Quilty reviews Hizbullah in translation


• Review: Loaded Dice by Neill Lochery - Debunking of idea that UK Foreign Office is pro-Arab or anti-Israel


• The rise and decline of London as a pan-Arab media hub - Media critic Najm Jarrah


• An Israeli Law for Censorship of Web Comments - Elijah points to a bill in the Knesset that would enable libel laws for web comments


• Why does Johnny come marching homeless? - How Iraq veterans with psychological problems end up homeless


• Those troublesome engineers « Kafr al-Hanadwa - SP has a good post on why engineers are over-represented in Islamist groups

Comments

[Ragab El-Khawaga]

Speaking of Web censorship, I doint think I have seen it posted there but back in December the case of the 50 some websites that Judge Abdul Fattah Murad had asked to be shut down went to court and his request was shut down on december 29.
http://www.menassat.com/?q=en/news-articles/2677-its-official-freedom-expression-sacred-egypt

[arabist]

Indeed, that took place while I was not blogging, maalesh!