Links for 07.08.09 to 07.09.09

Bint Al-Beltway | Blog by Washington-based policy wonk, good stuff on Syria, Lebanon, US MENA policy, technology and military issues. Middle East Report Online: The Day After “Victory”: Kuwait’s 2009 Election and the Contentious Present by Mary Ann Tétreault and Mohammed Al-Ghanim | On Kuwait's election. Palestinians reject Netanyahu's 'economic peace' plan - Haaretz - Israel News | As well they should, Palestinians don't need an economic boost, they need independence and the end of the occupation. A Renditions Scandal in Britain—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) | On the case of Rangzieb Ahmed, an Ethipian rendited to Pakistan, which is currently being investigated by Britain. Which is more than you can say about Obama's decision not to investigate and prosecute these cases in America. Hamas: Mubarak doesn't know soldier's condition - Yahoo! News | Mubarak had said Shalit was well, but Hamas says Hosni has no idea what he's talking about. International Crisis Group - Iraq and the Kurds: Trouble Along The Trigger Line | Another ICG report on the important issue of how to settle resource-sharing, political rule among the Kurds and Arabs of Iraq, urges US to mediate resolution before withdrawal. In Morocco, an Alternative to Democracy - Morocco Board News Service | Excellent critique of a stupid WaPo article on Morocco. Q&A with Iranian Opposition Politician Ebrahim Yazdi Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English) | Essential interview with Iranian opposition figure. The Israeli ambassador is a dual national. | Isn't that a problem? Views | A veiled attack on freedom in France's niqab debate | Egyptian Muslim Brother Ibrahim al-Houdeiby on the France/niqab debate. Interesting use of Obama's Cairo speech at the end.

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Links January 29th and February 3rd

Automatically posted links for January 29th through February 3rd:

• Qatar reports new damage to Gulf undersea cables - Fourth time in a week - I think there's a conspiracy afoot
• Libya Sovereign Wealth Fund to Shun U.S., Ghanem Says - Qadhafi puts his country's money elsewhere
• Ezzedine Choukri: "?? ???? ????? ?? ????? ???? ??? ?" - Rafah episode shows current situation is losing one for all
• The path of centrist political Islam by Khalil Al-Anani - Al-Anani says MB hopeless, Wasat way forward
• Robert Fisk: The curious case of the forged biography - Fisk, hagiographer of Saddam Hussein
• Making a Great Arab City - I like this Rami Khouri piece on Dubai even though I am skeptical, because it praises the tradition of Arab cosmopolitan urbanism
• Arab Media Watch Arab Media Watch > Home - UK outfit combats anti-Arab bias in press
• Hamas explodes a giant hole in Egypt's political cover - Op-ed takes Egypt's hypocrisy on Palestine to task
• It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton - Faraday prize winner defends historic Arab scholarship
• For sale: West?s deadly nuclear secrets - Whistleblower says top US officials sold nuke secrets to Pakistan (the person is not named in the article, but others say it's Marc Grossman)
• Al-Jazeera Journalist Arrested in Egypt - Howeida Taha arrested, again
• AFP: Egypt censors book fair - Mohammed Choukri, Milan Kundera, Elias Khoury, Hanan al-Sheikh censored from Cairo Book Fair.

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Links for November 26th

Automatically posted links for November 26th:

• أول صحÙ�ÙŠ مسيحي مصري يجري حوارًا مع مرشد الإخوان المسلمين مهدي عاكÙ� - The first interview of MB Guide Mahdi Akef by an Egyptian Christian, apparently
• Foul times ahead for Egypt's bean staple - Alarmist predictions for fuul. Actually a lot comes from China nowadays, like everything else
• Why the Arab street? Â - Rami Khouri says the Arab street has changed, is essentially a mixture of nationalism and islamism, and counts for something
• International Crisis Group - Darfur?s New Security Reality - Report says Darfur situation getting worse, blames all parties, calls for sanctions all-round
• Building barriers - Great email forward about muhagaba/munaqaba-only café - "no Xian girls allowed"
• Ghassan Charbel on Lebanon - Al Hayat - "The Lebanese formula is by all means unique. It is a Tabbouleh plate whose ingredients have to be carefully weighed. Too much bulgur and it is an indigestion. Foreign parsley ruins its pleasure. The oil and onions have to be carefully handled, and the to
• The Alliance of Egyptian Americans - New group seeks to foster democratic change

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Del.icio.us links for November 20th

Automatically posted links for November 20th:

• List of invitees to Mideast peace talks - Yahoo! News - How do I get an invite?
• Obama: I tried drugs as a teen (AP) - Kids: do drugs and drink, it doesn't matter you might still be president or at least senator.
• Divorce in Egypt every six minutes (iafrica.com) -
• Islamists Today: The Man Who Once Secretly Ruled the Islamic Jihad Speaks out - Khalil Enani looks at the man at the center of the Islamic Jihad recantation
• The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Annapolis and After - ICG report suggests getting serious in Annapolis, notably by including Hamas and Syria
• Sandmonkey Tales: Abdel Monem and me - Sandmonkey is stirring shit again...
• In West Bank, Checkpoints Splinter Palestinian Economy - WSJ.com - West Bank economy "shattered", says World Bank
• Wealthy Nations In Gulf Rethink Peg to Dollar - WSJ.com - To peg or not to peg?
• FOXNews.com - Egyptian Woman Files for Divorce Over Husband's Refusal to Shower - Another great headline
• Le Monde.fr : Les bars a  narguilés menacés de fermeture le 1er janvier - France to close down shisha bars

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