Links from my del.icio.us account for August 30th:

Daily News Egypt - EGYPT BANS ‘EYE ON DEMOCRACY’ TAPING - Al Hurra show on democracy in Egypt banned by security before taping
FT.com / World - Wealth weighs heavily on Gulf Arabs - Rich gulfies = fat bastards
FT.com / World - Pegged to a money illusion - An [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for August 29th through August 30th:

Bearing Up - New York Times - McCain VP Sarah Palin's old NYT op-ed against making polar bears an endangered species
Plan For Iraq - Internet archive cache of planforiraq.com, the Joe Biden-backed website that advocated the extreme federalization of Iraq
Daily News Egypt - FOUR DECADES [...]

Here’s an interesting piece on the future of US aid to Egypt by Scott Carpenter, who used to run the democracy-promotion office at the State Department until about a year ago. The piece is important because it highlights the little focused on the 2004 MOU between Egypt and the US, which formalized tying aid to [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for August 24th through August 27th:

EXCLUSIVE-US tax breaks help Jewish settlers in West Bank | Reuters - Donations to settler groups are tax-exempt in US: "a review by Reuters of U.S. tax records found 13 tax-exempt organisations openly linked to settlements that have raised more than $35 million in the [...]

If you read a lot of book reviews, as I do, you will have noticed that many reviewers (especially ones who are also writers or work in the same field as the author of the book) are reticent to go on attack mode when reviewing a peer’s work. Add to that the phenomenon of logrolling [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for August 17th through August 24th:

A new regional order - Haaretz - Israel News - On how Egypt and Saudi are losing relevance to Turkey and others
Middle East Analyst - A new strategic politics of the Middle East blog
Egypt: Deadly journey through the desert | Amnesty International - "25 people [...]

The Forward on Abdullah, the puppet-king of Jordan — how many countries’ leaders do you think are regularly spoken about in this manner?
Even Jordan, one of the most pro-Western, anti-fundamentalist regimes in the Arab world, is testing the waters. Jordanian defense officials met with senior officials from Hamas over the past few weeks to talk [...]

Yesterday the upper house of the Egyptian parliament, the Shura Council, was engulfed in flames. The century-old building, or at least its upper floors, have been completely destroyed and the fire threatened to spread to the lower house of parliament, the People’s Assembly. These institutions are among the oldest representative assemblies in the Arab world, [...]

As you probably have noticed there is a problem with the theme display on Arabist.net. Be patient while the problem is fixed.
Update: OK that should be fixed now. Thanks for the offer of help!

Imbaba,an informal settlement in the north part of Cairo that sprang up in the 1970s with the massive arrival of Upper Egyptian migrants, is officially Egypt’s most fertile neighborhood. As opposed to the neighborhood across the Nile from Imbaba, the swanky island of Zamalek, which is the least fertile (but of course, while around the [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for August 17th:

In Egypt, Some Women Say That Veils Increase Harassment - washingtonpost.com - Is the hijab a gateway garment - works well at first, then leaves you wanting more?
Veils swapped for bikinis on Egypt’s women-only beaches - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos - Egypt's religious schizophrenia illustrated - look [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for August 13th through August 17th:

Egypt to compensate jailed Islamists: report - Middle East Times - Interior Ministry says, sorry for holding you for a decade without trial, here's some baksheesh
» Egypt embarrasses itself again Middle East Strategy at Harvard - Michele Dunne on Saad Eddin Ibrahim, interesting discussion
Source: Secret [...]

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

IkhwanWeb - Editorial: Muslim Brotherhood Hits the Obama Campaign Trail - MB speaks out on allegedly MB-linked Muslim advisor to Obama, denies links
عار التحرش الجنسي في مصر- المصرى اليوم - Mona Tahawy on sexual harassment
CPJ News Alert 2008 - EGYPT: Still no word, five years [...]

Iraqi refugees in Egypt get a free flight to a very uncertain future:
BAGHDAD (AP) _ Several hundred Iraqi refugees flew home from Egypt on Monday on the Iraqi prime minister’s plane, the first government-organized flight aimed at accelerating the return of Iraqis now that violence has waned.
Many of those returning on the free flight, however, [...]

This does not really make sense (in various ways):
Israel cracks down on Arabic Harry Potter
1 hour, 51 minutes ago
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Harry Potter and Pinocchio are apparently not welcome in Israel, at least in their Arabic translations imported from Syria and Lebanon.
Arab-Israeli publisher Salah Abassi told Israeli public radio on Monday that authorities ordered him [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for August 10th through August 11th:

Daily News Egypt - NAZIF POSTS COMMENT ON LEFTIST BLOG - Egypt PM confirms leaving comments on critical blog
Daily News Egypt - TMG SHARES DROP AMID RUMORS THAT CHAIRMAN FLED THE COUNTRY - Tycoon implicated in murder of Lebanese pop tarts, sends stocks plummeting
FT.com / [...]

Don’t miss this interesting two-part al-Jazeera English report on the ties between the Pentagon and Hollywood, the defense interests of major media companies and the public impact of propaganda movies about war.

Part I
Will update this post with Part II when it becomes available.
Update: Here’s Part II:

Links from my del.icio.us account for August 9th through August 10th:

Orwell diaries - 70 years later, blog posts George Orwell’s diary one day at a time - includes his convalescence in Morocco!
Mahmoud Darwish - Official website of the late poet
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 - One of the greatest contemporary Arab poets passes [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for August 8th through August 9th:

The Mysterious Downfall of Assef Shawkat (August 2008) - Mideast Monitor on how Shawkat has been retired and Bushra exiled
The Middle East and America’s election | Who would be best for the Arabs? | Economist.com - Majority skeptical of either candidate, even if [...]