Links 8-31 May 2018

• Jordan struggles for survival strategy in shadow of US-Israeli-Saudi axis | Middle East Eye
  Sean Yom manages to make Jordan sound exciting.
• Climate change is making the Arab world more miserable
  Great.
• Jordan's king freezes price hikes after days of protests
• Cambridge Analytica’s Parent Company Helped Shape Saudi Arabia’s Reform Movement
  This is fascinating.
• Misery as Strategy: The Human Cost of Conflict
  ICG's Caroline Flintoft
• Q&A – Tunisia in Transition: A Comparative View from Thomas Carothers
• Why Egypt Is at the Forefront of Hepatitis C Treatment
  Impressive effort.
• Tunisia and the International Community since 2011: Rentierism, Patronage and Moral Hazard | Jadaliyya
• The Life Span of Alternative Media: Cases of Lakome and Mamfakinch in Morocco | Jadaliyya
• Kuwait's careful balancing act with Iran, Saudi Arabia
  A primer by Hamad Albloshi
• A Century of Arab Art, Compressed Into a Book: @ursulind's review in @alfanar of a new and fascinating entry in @MuseumModernArt Primary Documents series
• Recognizing Annexation: Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem
  Joel Beinin for MERIP
• The arrest of an Egyptian satirist shines a light on the government's system of intimidation
• After dumping the nuclear deal, Trump has no strategy for Iran
  Very good piece by Suzanne Maloney esp. on the inflated expectations of the JCPOA.
• The Brazen Bootlegging of a Multibillion-Dollar Sports Network
  Great story by Tariq Panja.
• Egypt: The use of indefinite solitary confinement against prisoners amounts to torture | Amnesty International