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Links January 26th to January 27th
Issandr El AmraniLinks from my del.icio.us account for January 26th through January 27th:
- U.S. Navy ordered to release Iran weapons ship - US Navy conducting searches of Iranian ships in Egyptian territorial waters.
- Bloomberg.com: Mubarak Risks Losing Lead Role in Gaza Talks as Criticism Rises - Would Egyptian failure in its mediation efforts doom a Gamal presidency?
- IkhwanWeb | Egypt’s intelligence blackmails wounded Palestinians to tell about Hamas - Reports on Egyptian intelligence torturing/interrogating Palestinians being treated in Egypt are surfacing.
- Almasry Alyoum | The Butane Gas Cylinder - Magdi Gallad's column in Masri al-Youm illustrates some of the recent problems with shortages of butane gas cylinders - among the most subsidzed item in Egypt's huge subsidy program.
- Le Figaro - International : Souleiman, l'homme qui sait parler à Israël et au Hamas - Profile of Mar Suleiman.
- Israel stymies French push to lift European boycott of Hamas - Haaretz - Israel News - French-Israeli battle over change of policy on Hamas isolation.
- Egypt persecutes Muslim moderates - International Herald Tribune - Quranists got an op-ed in IHT. I don't like their use of the stupid analogy "Islamic Reformation" though.
- VirtualGaza | Break the Information Blockade - Google Earth overlay magic over Gaza.
- Egyptian chronicles: On this day please become our shield not our enemy - On the origins of Egypt's Police Day.
- Lebanon's Daily Star shut down - International Herald Tribune - Daily Star's gone bust? Too bad.
- Democracy Now! | Noam Chomsky: Obama's Stance on Gaza Crisis "Approximately the Bush Position" - Still early, Noam. But it's true we've seen nothing new so far.
- Among Egyptians, mixed feelings over Gaza - Yahoo! News - This war really brought into the open the divisions in Egypt over Hamas and the Palestinians more generally.
- TelQuel : Le coup de poing Casanegra - Casanegra, Morocco's hit movie.
- FT.com / Middle East / Arab-Israel conflict - Israelis display ‘grim satisfaction’ - War crimes as group therapy: "Whether through pride, relief or even a sense of triumph, there is no doubt that the Gaza conflict has at last made Israelis feel better about themselves, their leaders and their army."
Reader Comments (1)
Dear Arabist, could you put a summary in English here for Le figaro' profile of Omar Suleiman.. :D