Links March 7 - 13 2015

• Morocco: The slow pace of change
• Europe Stands Up to Saudi Arabia
  Interesting Swedish-Saudi falling out
• Built on Sand: Egypt’s Questionable Strategy for Growth and Development [PDF]
  Party poopers.
• Egypt: Newspaper reporting that ministries dodged over US$1 billion in taxes confiscated
• The “invisible hand” of the state in MENA economies
  On SOEs, many good points.
• AFTER ARAB SPRING, SURVEILLANCE IN EGYPT INTENSIFIES
  Good to see The Intercept focus on Arab countries.
• The big drop: Riyadh’s oil gamble
  Interesting long piece on Saudi energy policy.
• The Inquiry: Who Wants What in Libya?
  With my contribution.
• Iran Offers to Mediate Talks Between Republicans and Obama
• On the difficulties of forming a Shia-Sunni alliance against ISIS
• Sisi has a lot riding on this economic investment conference
• How to get (and dump) and ISIS boyfriend online: A reporter’s undercover life with a terrorist
• Becoming Jihadi John
  Good analysis of how ISIS "weaponizes discontent"
• Liberman: 'Behead' Disloyal Arab Citizens of Israel
• School shut down after pupil allegedly killed by teacher in Cairo And teacher arrested?
• 'SNL' Has Nothing On The Way The Middle East Mocks ISIS
• Cairo’s Museum of Islamic Art: A year after a terrorist bombing, the famed museum remains in ruins. Partly because of corruption in Egypt
• Max Fisher on another murder of a Muslim in the US and the climate that may have encouraged it
• In Libya, will Misrata be the kingmaker? 
  Good overview of diversity of militias in Misrata.
• New EU Syria sanctions reveal regime collusion with Isis - FT
• Collusion to Crackdown: Islamist-Military Relations in Egypt | Brookings Institution
  Omar Ashour
• Saudi Arabia wants us to make peace with Egypt, says Turkish president
• Will #SisiLeaks be Egypt's Watergate for Abdel Fatah al-Sisi?