Links 10 September - 13 October 2017

Another overdue link dump:

• Patrick Cockburn · Underground in Raqqa · LRB 19 October 2017
• The beauty and mystery of Arabic calligraphy
  Robert Irwin
• Adam Shatz and Olivier Roy · Living Orients · LRB 11 October 2017
  Good podcast on Roy's youth.
• Egyptian Activist Receives a Top Human Rights Award - The New York Times
  Mohamed Zaree receives Martin Ennals prize.
• La structure tribale en Libye : facteur de fragmentation ou de cohésion ? - Fondation pour la recherche stratégique
  Mohamed Ben Lamma.
• Tunisie, vers le rétablissement d'un pouvoir personnel
  Thierry Bresillion
• Abdellah Tourabi: la dernière chance de l'école publique - H24info
• UAE official says Qatar giving up World Cup may end ‘crisis’ - The Washington Post
  Don't worry it's just Emirati clown/police chief Dhahi Khalfan
• The Amateur Fiction of Arab Dictators - BLARB
• Ancient Maps Are Mirrors for the Ancient Psyche | JSTOR Daily
  On "The Book of Curiosities"
• Translating ″Mein Kampf″ into Arabic: Hitler′s paperchase - Qantara.de
  Hans Wehr's surprising Nazi past
• Europe Slams Its Gates: Imperiling Africa — And Its Own Soul
  “Europe wants to use Libya as its Berlin Wall to divide Africa from Europe.”
• The UAE Secretly Picked Up the Tab for the Egyptian Dictatorship’s D.C. Lobbying
• The Children of the Arab Spring Are Being Jailed and Tortured | The Nation
  Scott Long on Sisi's war on youth
• Enigma: The anatomy of Israel’s intelligence failure almost 45 years ago
• Do you still remember him?
  On Muhammad al-Durrah
• The mass arrests in KSA include ultra-reactionary preachers and reformist scholars, writes @ursulind in @alfanarmedia
• Hold the Egg Sandwich: Egyptian TV Is Calling - NYTimes.com
  This is a great New York story and a great Egypt story.
• Egyptian intelligence services extend control over media | RSF
• Saudi Arabia Detains Critics as New Crown Prince Consolidates Power - The New York Times
• Pioneering Egyptian Painter’s Legacy
  @ursulind in @alfanarmedia on great new book on Mahmoud Said
• A Dissident Cartoonist Wades into the United States’s Toxic Relationship With Israel - Los Angeles Review of Books
• La Tunisie prisonnière d'une bipolarisation mortifère
  This, by former Marzouki advisor Aziz Krichen, is brilliant on Tunisian politics
• Egypt says police killed 10 suspected militants in Cairo - The Washington Post
  Alleged to come from Sinai for attacks in Cairo
• Synaps | Black holes
  What satellite light signatures tell us about Syria.