Links 28 March - 21 April 2014

• Satirical show on hold to prevent influencing voters - MBC - Aswat Masriya
  Bassem Youssef only one with influence? What a joke.
• A Brotherhood Inquiry in Bad Faith - NYTimes
  Kenan Malik on David Cameron's "investigation-for-contracts" of the MB
• The campaign to condemn the Brotherhood | ECFR
  Hammond on the Saudi spin to blame MB for Islamic extremism.
• Hammonda. » The Riyadh Document: What could it mean?
  On the inter-GCC negotiations.
• Absence by Sabry Khaled
  Stunning photography of the families who have lost loved one in Egypt in the last 3 years
• How Egypt's Rebel Movement Helped Pave The Way For A Sisi Presidency
  Lo and behold, a Tamarrod leader admits to Sheera Frenkel the group was infiltrated by security, "duped"
• From Minya, after the verdict
  Great piece about the atmosphere in a town where 529 have gotten a death sentence
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families in Moadamiya, Syria
  On the desperation in Syria and the West's collective shrug
• The Real Contest for Egypt Has Been Won, Now the Spectacle Begins » CounterPunch
  Musa al-Gharbi.
• Democracy has no hope until slavery ends - FT.com
  @weddady on Mauritania.
• WE ARE HAPPY FROM TRIPOLI
  Unusually upbeat vision of Libya (although an entirely woman-free one)
• Egypt woman professor targets young in bid to save Brotherhood
  Good piece.
• Artists install massive poster of child’s face in Pakistan field to shame drone operators
  The child lost both parents and a sibling to a drone attack
• Egypt's constitutional cul-de-sac
  Nathan Brown looks back over Egypt's painful and convoluted constitution writing process
• Patrick Seale: an appreciation | THE DAILY STAR
  Michael Young, on news that Seale is very ill.
• Slain Photographer Made War's Pain Intimate
  A slideshow of the beautiful work of Anja Niedringhaus, AP photographer shot in Afghanistan
• Cameron and the Muslim Brothers - FT.com
  Good op-ed raising questions about public announcement of MB enquiry.
• Britain’s move on the MB: a Saudi victory
  Excellent analysis of Saudi-MB relations by Andrew Hammond.
• Peter Neumann · Suspects into Collaborators: Assad and the Jihadists · LRB
• Obama Offers Assurance to Saudis on Syria Stance - NYT
  Interesting details on various things.
• Fueling Egypt’s Economy - Sada
  On the energy crisis.
• Egypt's Judges Join In | Foreign Affairs
  Brown & Dunne on the politicisation of the judiciary.
• Exclusive: Egyptian Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah on Prison & Regime’s "War on a Whole Generation" | Democracy Now!
  Long interview with reflections on the state of Egypt.
• Égypte, la natalité repart à la hausse
  On demographics in Egypt.
• Britain Orders Inquiry Into Muslim Brotherhood - NYT
• Was Mohammed Morsi Really an Autocrat? - Shadi Hamid and Meredith Wheeler - The Atlantic
• High Culture and Hard Labor
  NYU professor Andrew Ross on the workers building museums and universities in the Persian Gulf
• In Egypt a cry of outrage is met with death
  Good piece on one of the 529 sentenced to death
• Romancing the Throne | MERIP
  Sheila Carapico on Saudi-US
• Stuck (or Not) in a "Special Relationship" | MERIP
  On US-Saudi relations