Links mid-February- 7 May 2018

Clearing a backlog of mostly stale links after a long absence from the blog. Maalesh. 

• Israeli Operatives Who Aided Harvey Weinstein Collected Information on Former Obama Administration Officials
  Against Iran deal
• Sending Arab troops to Syria a possibility, says Egyptian minister
• Running as Resistance in Occupied Palestine | MERIP
  Joshua Stacher
• Egypt battles to rein in debt
  Heba Saleh interviews Egyptian Finance Minister Amr Garhy
• Ibn Khaldun: the man who invented modern history | Prospect Magazine
  Interview with Robert Irwin.
• Egypt: Former top auditor sentenced to five years in prison
  The latest of many outrages.
• Egypt: Looming Humanitarian Crisis in Sinai | HRW
• Votes for sugar
  Tom Stevenson on the Sisilection
• Asma Lamrabet quits official post over women's inheritance rights
  Moroccan feminist scholar of religion who @ursulind just profiled for @AlFanarMedia
• Elections en Egypte
  Good radio show (FR) feat. Stephane Lacroix, Jean-Pierre Filiu, etc.
• Deep States in MENA | Middle East Policy Council
  Robert Springborg
• How the Middle East is sowing seeds of a second Arab spring
• Egypt and Sudan: Diplomatic pacification, unresolved affairs | MadaMasr
• The Arab Spring’s Riskiest Legacy May Be Egypt’s Baby Boom - Bloomberg
• Kidnapped Royalty Become Pawns in Iran’s Deadly Plot - The New York Times
• 'I'd rather die in my house': How Egypt’s 'successful' Sinai campaign starves locals | Middle East Eye
• The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to General McMaster and Acting Secretary of State Sullivan
• No longer a secret: How Israel destroyed Syria's nuclear reactor - Haaretz
• Scholar Makes a Religious Case for Women’s Rights
  @ursulind on Morocco's Asma Lamrabet
• I Knew the Cold War. This Is No Cold War. – Foreign Policy
  Stephen Walt.
• Russia's Favorite Syrian Warlord - The Atlantic
  Sam Dagher.
• Oppositions algériennes : au-delà du pouvoir
  Said Sadi, former head of RCD party
• Who is Losing the Nile?
  Sisi, apparently.
• L'Algérie tétanisée par un cinquième mandat de Bouteflika
  Elites can't agree on a successor, so he stays.
• Why do white people like what I write?
  Pankaj Mishra on Ta-Nehisi Coates; delicious if not altogether deserved attack on The Atlantic.
• 'Ensuring happier lives': Chinese media defends move to make Xi Jinping all powerful
  This has relevance for MENA, esp. Egypt...
• Salman's Legacy | Hurst Publishers
  New book edited by Madawi al-Rasheed.
• Officer in Egypt catches boy who falls from balcony; incident caught on video
  Awesome.
• Witnessing the Collapse of the Global Elite - The Atlantic
  Eliot A. Cohen.