Links 5 November 2010

• RN Rear Vision - 3 November 2010 - A history of modern Yemen
  Great historical podcast.
• Youssef Boutros-Ghali - Egypt: Trendsetter in the Mideast
  YBG plays the Coptic card to woo Washington. To be deconstructed later.
• The Heart of the Conflict in the Middle East
  Saudi's Turki al-Faisal attacks the neocons. [PDF]
• Patronage and the ballot box - CIPE Development Blog
  Follow the links for good paper on Moroccan politics.
• His Story
  Sarah Carr on the rather lame Mubarak cult of personality.
• Diplomacy over Western Sahara: Morocco v Algeria | The Economist
  The stalemate continues, and the Sahrawis are tired of it.
• In Yemen Bomb Plot, 2 Darkly Historical Inside Jokes - NYTimes.com
  Parcels addressed to Inquisition and Crusades figures.