Links up to 11 March 2020

Trying to get into the habit of posting these links again, so clearing up the backlog…

• Egypt jails prominent political figure for a year over 'false news' - Reuters
  About Zyad Elelaimy.

• While GERD’s Reservoir Remains Empty, Tensions Rise in Dam Dispute – The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy

• From Harvard Medical Student to Detained Egyptian Activist | The Crimson
  From Harvard Medical Student to Detained Egyptian Activist | The Crimson

• Lebanon’s GDP declines to $44 billion from $55 billion | Daily Star

• Saudi Arabia escalates oil price war with plan to maximise supply | Financial Times
  Riyadh boosting supply beyond its production capacity (using reserves) in game of chicken.

• Meet Omar Radi, the Moroccan Journalist Who Was Jailed for a Single Tweet & Faces Trial on March 5 | Democracy Now!

• No Damascus like home | Synaps

• Hezbollah’s Suicidal Red Line - Carnegie

• Avoiding a Populist Surge in Tunisia | Crisis Group

• U.S. “Maximum Pressure” on Iran Hurts the Women It Claims to Help | Crisis Group

• The Arabs’ Moment - Carnegie
  Marwan Muasher

• Criminalizing Palestinian Resistance: The EU’s Additional Condition on Aid to Palestine - Al-Shabaka

• Skateboarding won't 'save' Afghan girls | Al Jazeera
  You don't say.

• In capital of Arab America, Bernie Sanders pledges to fight discrimination | Middle East Eye

• Nile Conflict: Compensation Rather Than Mediation - SWP

• How Should Lebanon Navigate the Crisis? | LCPS
  How Should Lebanon Navigate the Crisis? | LCPS

• Israel election results: Benjamin Netanyahu, liberator of the 'third Israel' - Haaretz

• Fear and loathing of Netanyahu breaking down the wall separating Israeli Jews and Arabs - Haaretz

• The End of Egyptian Cotton | The New Yorker

• Counterfeit Egyptian money, stamps and poisoned wells: When young Israel stirred the water of the Nile - Middle East News - Haaretz.com

• Saudis Plan Big Oil Output Hike, Beginning All-Out Price War - Bloomberg

• Shale Oil, OPEC+ Fight: Putin, MBS and U.S. Fracking Industry - Bloomberg

• Screwball Comics and Foolish Questions | by Art Spiegelman | The New York Review of Books
  Reading Art Spiegelmann about Rube Goldberg is worth an annual NYRB subscription alone

• Opinion | The Failure of Europe’s Feeble Muscle Flexing - The New York Times
  Anna Sauerbrey on Instex

• OTF | The Silencing Effect of Digital Transnational Repression
  How Egypt, Syria and Iran intimidate exiled activists

• Little Magazines | Sowt
  The latest episode of BULAQ looks at the joyful, hardscrabble adventure of independent publishing in the region

• I was meant to talk about Palestinian kids at the UN. Israel forced me out - +972
  Brad Parker of Defence for Children International.

• A shameful response to the tragedy in Idlib | FT
  The FT's editorial board calls for Putin to be confronted.

• A Police State With an Islamist Twist: Inside Hifter’s Libya | NYT
  David Kirkpatrick in Benghazi.

• « Sur le conflit israélo-palestinien, la voix de la France s’est éteinte » | Le Monde
  Yves Aubin de La Messuzière

• Trump’s deal gives Israel a superpower endorsement of apartheid | 972
  Omar H. Rahman.

• Driss Chraïbi & the Novel Morocco Had to Ban | NYR Daily
  Adam Shatz.

• POMEPS Studies 33: The Politics of Rentier States in the Gulf
  Edited volume.

• Iraqi Protesters Thwarted by Trump’s Iran Policy | MERIP
  Yousef Baker.

• The Rise and the Future of Militias in the MENA Region | ISPI
  A new volume of collected essays.

• In Search of Legitimacy | Carnegie
  Dalia Ghanem and Ryad Banaidji on Algeria's Tebboune.

• A Storm of Imperfection | Carnegie
  Maha Yahia on the need for a new social contract in Lebanon.

• The irresistible resiliency of Iraq’s protesters | Brookings
  Ranj Alaaldin.

• The dark side of consensus in Tunisia: Lessons from 2015-2019 | Brookings
  Sharan Grewal and Shadi Hamid.

• Will Jordan Pay a Price? | Carnegie
  In an interview, Marwan Muasher outlines what scares Amman in the Trump peace plan for Palestinians and Israelis.

• The Not So Simple Past
  The latest episode of @bulaqbooks tackles Moroccan writer Driss Chraibi's classic tale of a very angry young man: https://www.sowt.com/en/Bulaq

• The Elephant Is The Room | صوت
  A new episode of @bulaqbooks podcast, recorded in Cairo

• U.S. Killing of Qasem Soleimani: Frequently Asked Questions | CRS
  Useful PDF primer.

• The Lebanese Street Asks: ‘Which Is Stronger, Sect or Hunger?’
  Ursula Lindsey in the @NYRbooks, on the emergence of a non-sectarian movement and the risks of an economic collapse in Lebanon