Links from my del.icio.us account for May 27th through May 29th:

The Magnes Zionist: Haaretz Rumored to Have Fired Amira Hass and Meron Rapoport – Rumors that two of the best Israeli journalists covering the OTs are fired (TBC)
MotherJones Blog: American Jewish Committee Won’t Touch Hagee on Holocaust; Silence from AIPAC, ADL – Supposed anti-Semitism watchdogs [...]

When I first saw that Harvard had launched a blog that allowed Middle East experts to debate the issues of the day, I thought, good for them. But after reading it for several months, I am finding that most of the time it’s full of the most right-wing drivel and venomous attacks on mainstream Middle [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for May 25th through May 26th:

US mathematician to give Israel prize money to Palestinians
(AFP) – "US mathematician David Mumford said on Monday he would donate his share of Israel's Wolf Prize to a Palestinian university and an Israeli human rights group"
The Daily Star – Opinion Articles [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for May 21st through May 24th:

Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave – The New York Review of Books – Ahmed Rashid reviews books on Jihad
A Reporter at Large: The Rebellion Within: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker – Lawrence Wright on Dr. Fadl
Middle East Online: Egypt’s Nur cut off from [...]

A recruiter from Google has written to send the following job ad– they’re hiring software engineers and more who have fluent Arabic. The whole job listing is after the jump for those interested — good luck to those who’d apply, and if you get in please tell Google to allow filtering of Israeli ads in [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for May 18th through May 21st:

World’s Poor Pay Price as Crop Research Is Cut – New York Times – Post-Green Revolution cuts in agro R&D has its role in surging food prices
Le Monde.fr : Taslima Nasreen, éternelle proscrite – Asie-Pacifique – Bengali writer threatened by Islamists on the run
Le Monde.fr [...]

There’s been much about Jeffrey Goldberg’s New York Times piece about how the powerful members of Zionist groups in America are being, er, more Catholic than the Pope (more Talmudic than the Rabbi?) in their inflexibility on the issue of West Bank settlements. Yes, it’s good that a prominent Jewish-American journalist and former IDF soldier [...]

Poor, poor Egyptian Ministry of Interior: its repressive capabilities are being stressed to the limit by the constant strikes, riots, protests and other events. So what does it do? Ask for even more money, of course:
In a briefing to parliament, Yusuf said the ministry was spending more money on advanced security equipment meant to quell [...]

Letter to head of the Judges’ Club Zakariya Abdel Aziz from the three Mahalla detainees, Kamal El-Fayyoumy, Tareq Amin, and Karim El-Beheiry:
We would like in the beginning to correct certain information which has reached the press about our (the three of us) having been transferred to the prison hospital as a result of our hunger [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for May 18th:

LRB · Adam Shatz: Short Cuts – The link between the companies to which immigration is outsourced and the ones to which the Iraq war is outsourced
Food crisis creates an opening for Muslim fundamentalists – Los Angeles Times – MB in Jordan provides food relief, stokes resentment against [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for May 13th through May 18th:

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Egypt con man gets 1,000 years – BBC story about conman gets tons of comments from Egyptians who've been ripped off
Saudis Rebuff Bush on Oil – WSJ.com – GWB goes to see BFF Abdullah, gets told to buzz off
Le [...]

Hillary’s Downfall on FunnyOrDie.com

For the last week Dream TV’s interview with President Bush has been talked up in Egypt, but can you understand any of this? And can Bush get any more condescending (and wrong) when he tells the interviewer she has her job because Egypt is a “society that honors diversity and gives people a chance to [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for May 11th through May 12th:

‘You made it big, you jerk!’ – Haaretz profile of major Israeli-American lobbyist/funder Haim Saban
Yemen | Anxious times | Economist.com – Rare article on under-covered north-south dispute in Yemen
The Palestinians | The wandering Palestinian | Economist.com
– Long essay about the Palestinians 60 years [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for May 8th:

allAfrica.com: Egypt: TV Agency Boss Facing Charges Over Food Riots, Harassed for Links With Al-Jazeera (Page 1 of 1) – Broadcaster charged over footage of 6 April riots
Judaism is universal, by Eric Rouleau – Famed French journo on Avraham Burg's new book
Egypt: bread riots and mill strikes, by [...]

Egypt is now moving in the direction of much more repressive regimes, wanting to control all communications:
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has asked mobile phone companies to block service to anonymous subscribers as a public security measure, and at least two firms have begun efforts to comply, Egyptian officials and mobile firms said on Monday.

The move [...]

I found the name of this mobile phone shop in Assuit amusing.

Gary Sick, a Columbia University professor and eminent scholar of the Persian Gulf, has written a short essay on Hillary Clinton’s recent threat to “obliterate Iran” should it attack Israel for the excellent Gulf 2000 listserv he maintains. Notwithstanding the chiefly domestic US political reasons that led Clinton to engage in rather vulgar sable-rattling, Sick [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for April 26th through May 4th:

Critic accuses Hollywood of vilifying Arabs – Jack Shaheen's new book on Arabs in Hollywood since 9/11
Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice – Famine looming in Mauritania
srael Might Have Many More Spies Here, Officials Say – Long story on Kadish case and use of Mossad [...]