Links for 12-18 December

Automatically posted links for December 12th through December 18th:

• Democracy Digest - Newsletter on democracy developments in Arab world and elsewhere, current issue has article on MB
• BBC World Service | 'Free to Speak' Events - Is new media the only truly independent media in the Arab world today?
• GWOT: Egypt - Negar Azimi on Egypt and the "Global War On Terror"
• Islamist calls for boycott of Egypt billionaire - "An Islamist shaikh on Monday called for a boycott of the companies of telecommunications billionaire Naguib Sawiris for speaking out against the influence of Islam on public life in Egypt."
• YEARENDER: In Egypt, unrest will spill over into 2008 - corrected : Middle East World - In the last few months of 2007, Egypt has experienced a series of massive workers strikes, motivated by none other than poor standards of living and lack of privileges, foreboding the beginning of a possible "uprising" by Egypt's poor.
• Incumbent Regimes and the ?King?s Dilemma? in the Arab World: Promise and Threat of Managed Reform - Carnegie report says political stagnation seen as more likely outcome if regimes not serious about reform
• Arab Reform Bulletin: December 2007 - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Beyond the Façade: Political Reform in the Arab World - New book by Carnegie Endowment
• Le Monde.fr : Le 10 était parfait pour le colonel Kadhafi - On Qadhafi's visit to Paris coinciding with international human rights day
• Anthropologists on the Front Lines - TIME - TIME looks at debates in academic community about Human Terrain Teams
• The Press Association: Army chief among Beirut blast dead - Michel Suleiman successor killed

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Links for 12 December

Automatically posted links for December 9th through December 12th:

• The Press Association: Army chief among Beirut blast dead - Michel Suleiman successor killed
• Sacrés Marocains ! - Poll on the religiosity of Moroccans (post in French, report in various languages.)
• CIA has recruited Iranians to defect - Los Angeles Times - A "handful" of defectors recruited, provided much of NIE info
• AFP: Iran drops dollar from oil deals: report - "TEHRAN (AFP) ? Major crude producer Iran has completely stopped carrying out its oil transactions in dollars, Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said on Saturday, labelling the greenback an "unreliable" currency."
• The Chronicle of Arab/Muslim Depravity over three centuries - Angry Arab savages Michael Oren's latest book

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