Links 27 December 2011 - 1 January 2012

• Tribal loyalties sway votes in south Egypt - FT.com
  Nice reporting by Heba Saleh from Qena.
• Best of the blogs | openDemocracy
  Arabist is cited here, in good company.
• As-Safir Newspaper - فاسم قصير: التيارات السلفية في مصر: فوز راسخ... أم حالة عابرة؟
  On Salafis in Egypt
• Prophecy and Deliverance: Reading al-'Azm in An Age of Revolution
  Review by Adam Shatz
• حصريا : قصيدة تميم البرغوثى ياشعب مصر مع الكلمات كاملة
  Great 'aamiya poem by Tamim Barghouti.
• Saddam’s mechanics of power are little changed - FT.com
  Jack Fairweather.
• No to Military Trials for Civilians: The One Citizen – by Maikel Nabil
• Why we (keep) fighting
  Interesting post on US military power
• Who leads the (Wahhabized) Muslim mainstream?
  Another great post from Andrew Hammond.
• Egypt's prison shootings: What happened?
  Egypt's prison shootings: What happened? on @GlobalPost #Egypt #SCAF #Jan25
• Egyptian Court Bans Army’s ‘Virginity Tests,’ Calls Them Degrading - The Daily Beast
• .@alaa released and live tweets of his latest TV interview | moftasa.net
• A firsthand account: Detained by the army for walking | Al-Masry Al-Youm
• Best Books on the Middle East, 2011
  Marc Lynch's pick.