Links December 19th and January 5th

Automatically posted links for December 19th through January 5th:

• Fashion and Faith Meet, on Foreheads of the Pious - NYT article from Dec 2007 on that bizarre Egyptian fetish, the zebibah


• Al Jazeera appelée à présenter ses excuses - Al Jazeera called on by its Algerian staff to apologize for poll about Algiers attacks


• Le Monde.fr : Le Dakar 2008 a été annulé - Paris-Dakar race cancelled for first time because of "al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb" threats


• Benazir Bhutto | Economist.com - A good obituary


• AFP: Egyptian woman in legal test of SMS divorce: report - Woman argues third divorce SMS makes it legal


• Guardian's Tehran correspondent expelled without explanation - Robert Tait kicked out of Iran


• Anti-Zionist author kicks off speaking tour of Lebanon - Norman Finkelstein tour


• Du Nil à la Seine, l'étrange destin des Badraouis - Unusual story about an Egyptian village that specializes in emigrating to France


• U.S. envoy Jones starts Mideast security push - New American governor of Palestine arrives

Comments

[pepe cadena]

in a similar newspaper I read that this will be one of the most common errors, also I read that Generic Viagra will be sell in this kind of Arabic places.