Links April 18th to April 20th

Links from my del.icio.us account for April 18th through April 20th:

• Strikes in Egypt: Female Workers on the Frontline | Mediterranean | Culture et politique en Méditerranée: information et identité Méditerranéennes avec Babelmed - Our Eman on the role of women in Egypt's strikes


• The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Stiglitz and more on cost of war


• Weekly Standard: Egypt Builds a Wall And changes its tune on Israel's barrier.
  Egypt Builds a Wall - Ya David Schenker of WINEP, one is a wall and the other a barrier?


• New Statesman - The lives of others - Review of Hugh Miles new book, "Playing Cards in Cairo"


• Iraq wants neighbours to forgive debts: report - Yahoo! News - So it goes back to Saddam's position before he invaded Kuwait


• From Our Own Correspondent | The Moroccan jailed by three kings - The life of Mohammed Bougrine, veteran Moroccan political dissident


• EU tightens anti-terrorism laws - "European Union justice ministers agree that inciting terrorism through the internet should be a crime."


• Aaron David Miller Tackles Arab-Israeli Diplomacy in ?The Much Too Promised Land? - New York Times - "While Mr. Miller does not prescribe a revolutionary remaking of the peace process, he does devote much of this volume to puncturing what he considers American illusions in the hope that the next round of diplomacy will be more successful. Like his collea

Comments

[MC]

Hugh Miles reviewed, note, by the lovely Rachel Aspden, erstwhile pillar of the now long defunct CT's culture section.

Love this line: "The structure is as meandering as [Hugh's] lifestyle and the writing frequently as lazy." Ouch. She does go on to say some very nice things, mind, which are enough for me to go ask for it at the bookstore down the street, and maybe even buy it when they order it in.

Good on you Hugh, but please take that hideous thing out of your ear. It's disturbing.