Egypt recently passed a new Child’s Law. One of the most controversial parts of the law was the criminalization of female circumcision, or FGM. I just did a story on this for yesterday’s edition of The World.
One things I discovered is that while the figure that’s commonly mentioned is that 96% of women in Egypt [...]

I was sent this image in an email forward.
The text says: “You can’t stop them, but you can protect yourself.”

Two obvious (and rhetorical) questions: Can we really not stop harassment? And does veiling really “protect” you?

Links from my del.icio.us account for June 19th:

Daily News Egypt - POLICE IN SEARCH OF AMERICAN TOURIST WITH FOOTAGE “MARRING EGYPT’S IMAGE” - The hunt for red khawaga
LRB · Norman Dombey: At Al Kibar - If someone has access to this article about the attack on Syria's nuclear reactor please send/post in comments
Dissent Magazine [...]

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

Al Hayat | The Ambassador’s Dog - US Amb. Scobey's dog's death poisons Egypt-US relations?
Israel and Hamas agree to Gaza truce
Israel and Hamas agree to Gaza truce
| Top News
| Reuters
- Egypt brokers ceasefire
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Egypt conscripts on murder charge [...]

Egyptian health officials have been gearing up for anti-smoking campaign for a few months, and a few weeks ago new warning labels appeared on the humble Masri pack of Cleopatras and other local and international brands. It’s a big marketing shift in a country of permanent smokers where the state-owned monopoly cigarette manufacturer, Oriental Tobacco, [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for June 14th through June 16th:

Egypt’s celebrated film director Chahine in coma - Yahoo! News - In treatment in Paris
The New US Ambassador to Egypt (and her Dog) - The Scobey's dog story is out!
Amusing TIME article about their Middle East correspondents in the 1950s - Includes coverage of Mossadegh [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for June 12th through June 14th:

Knesset Hawks Move To Strip Arabic of Official Status in Israel - Forward.com” - Bill seeks to make Hebrew only official language of Zionistan
Bashar Will Always Have Paris: Obama has AIPAC - Landis on Assad and Sarko's reconciliation
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Egypt bans [...]

We are launching a new blog under the Arabist umbrella. This is something we’ve been thinking of for some time and let’s just say that it’s going to be my summer project. Please check out The Arabist Review, which will be dedicated to covering arts and culture in Cairo and (hopefully) the Arab region. We [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for June 12th:

Welsh speaker boycotts Israeli ambassador
(AFP) - Not a lot of Jews in Wales, I guess
Barak: Labor will back dissolving Israel Knesset
(AP) - Yet another political crisis in Israel
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب - Angry Arab has interesting [...]

Gotta love it:
CAIRO (AFP) — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ordered an extension to exam time at a school south of Cairo after his convoy brought traffic to a standstill causing students to show up late, according to Thursday’s press.
“A humanitarian gesture by Father Mubarak to high school students of Six October,” read a headline in [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for June 8th through June 10th:

New boss is determined to keep the faith at Al-Jazeera | Media | The Observer - New MD at Al-J English faces distribution discrimination
Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | Can Qatar do it again? - Is Qatar trying to do for the Palestinians what it did [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for May 31st through June 4th:

The Daily Star - Politics - Cairo bars rights group from UN AIDS talks - Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, which fights for AIDS rights, blacklisted by own govt
ei: Haaretz.com promotes website advocating genocide and terrorism - Rather nasty
Al-Qaeda chief dies in missile air strike [...]