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Aug222009
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Issandr El Amrani | Egypt Environment Libya corruption delta lovecraft mubarak nile qadhafi succession system:filetype:pdf system:media:document
Issandr El Amrani | Egypt Environment Libya corruption delta lovecraft mubarak nile qadhafi succession system:filetype:pdf system:media:document
✪ Survey of Business Environment for Small and Medium-
Sized Enterprises in Egypt | Survey of Egyptians SMEs, focuses on corruption perception.
✪ Who Should Rule Egypt? | Baheyya lays out an argument between three possible types of rule in Egypt -- hereditary succession, military rule, and parliamentary rule -- and makes the point that Hosni Mubarak has unwittingly opened up the debate over how Egypt should be ruled.
✪ Libya and Muammar Qaddafi, 40 years on: How to squander a nation's potential | The Economist | Poor Libya.
✪ Nile Delta: 'We are going underwater. The sea will conquer our lands' | Environment | The Guardian | Jack Shenker has a great story on rising salinity levels and the impact of global warming in the Nile Delta.
✪ Hilo Hero: H.P. Lovecraft | Happy Birthday H.P. Lovecraft. I highly recommend the essay on him by the French reactionary writer (and one of my favorites, to be honest - I don't care about his views on Islam) Michel Houellebecq.
Sized Enterprises in Egypt | Survey of Egyptians SMEs, focuses on corruption perception.
✪ Who Should Rule Egypt? | Baheyya lays out an argument between three possible types of rule in Egypt -- hereditary succession, military rule, and parliamentary rule -- and makes the point that Hosni Mubarak has unwittingly opened up the debate over how Egypt should be ruled.
✪ Libya and Muammar Qaddafi, 40 years on: How to squander a nation's potential | The Economist | Poor Libya.
✪ Nile Delta: 'We are going underwater. The sea will conquer our lands' | Environment | The Guardian | Jack Shenker has a great story on rising salinity levels and the impact of global warming in the Nile Delta.
✪ Hilo Hero: H.P. Lovecraft | Happy Birthday H.P. Lovecraft. I highly recommend the essay on him by the French reactionary writer (and one of my favorites, to be honest - I don't care about his views on Islam) Michel Houellebecq.
Reader Comments (5)
that picture of qaddafi in the economist article is awesome! who picked that one on the right?
Call me a peedant, but from the Guardian piece:
"Egypt's breadbasket is littered with the remnants of old colonisers, from the Romans to the Germans..."
Germans?
Interesting set of bookmarks esp Baheyya's. As for "upyernoz" question: The photo is courtsey of 'AP' as appears on the top-right of it, and I think the right photo is from his recent (or what so called historic) visit to 'Italy'
MC: I assume "Germans" refers to Rommel, though of course he never got as far as the "breadbasket." Alamein is hardly the Delta, but I don't know what else it could mean.
MC - you remember we ran a similar feature in Cairo mag in 2005, about the Delta going underwater? I think we were among the first to flag the issue.
Jack - tell us, which Germans did you mean?
Hicham - Baheyya's article is very good as always, although she does not answer the short-term political question...