Saturday
Jul092011
Podcast #6: It's hot out there
Issandr El AmraniOn this week's podcast, we discuss the July 8 protests in Egypt, the raid on the second Gaza flotilla and Morocco's recent constitutional referendum.
Links for this week's episode:
- Live updates: A blow by blow account of Egypt's 'Friday of Determination' - Ahram Online
- NOW Magazine // News // Raid on the Tahrir
- Egypt to Gaza: The road begins here | Al-Masry Al-Youm:
- Morocco's referendum: A very small step | The Economist
- Weighing Morocco's New Constitution | Middle East Research and Information Project
- Video of Hoba Hoba Spirit's Bled Skizo
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Reader Comments (1)
On the Greeks blocking the Gaza-bound flotilla (mentioned in the podcast), it's also worth mentioning that as Turkey began steering its foreign-policy course towards the Arab world, Israel immediately began trying to deepen its strategic and military alliance with Greece, playing on historical sensitivities in Greek-Turkish relations and on Israel's own strong military ties to the United States. Like India, Greece was historically sympathetic to the Arab world, but countries, like people, change.