Links April 4-17 2015

• A review of the award-winning novel The Bamboo Stalk
  Set in the Philippines and Kuwait, translated by Jonathan Wright
• In Syria's war, Alawites pay heavy price for loyalty to Bashar al-Assad
• The United States and Palestine
  Rachid Khalidi
• The Islamic State in Libya, TheMagrebiNote | Articles, Translations, Analysis, Reports on the Islamic Maghreb 
• Geoff D. Porter on the price of stability in Algeria
• Her Majesty’s Jihadists
  On British Muslim foreign fighters in Syria.
• The Authoritarian Resurgence: Saudi Arabia’s Anxious Autocrats - Carnegie Endowment
  Fred Wehrey
• Gasser Abdel Razek: Interview with prominent Egyptian human rights activist
  The first in a series by Mada Masr
• NBC Alters Account of Correspondent’s Kidnapping in Syria
  Seemingly only after other media investigates
• Egyptian court sentences American to life in prison
  Mohammed Soltan is the son of an MB leader
• 7 books to help you understand Libya
  Good list
• Police allowed to deport gay foreigners, rules Egypt court
• Confusion regarding Egypt's new capital after Sisi announces lack of funds
  Already?
• Syria: Death from Assad’s Chlorine by Annie Sparrow | The New York Review of Books
• Putting Palestine on the Map…and the Jersey
  Great long read about Palestinian-Chilean soccer team
• Understanding Kafala: An archaic law at cross purposes with modern development | Migrant Rights
• Yémen : une faillite américano-saoudienne
  Yup.
• Saudi Shiites worry about backlash from Yemen war - The Washington Post
• In Egypt, ex-military men fire up Islamist insurgency | Reuters
• Arab Peacemaker
  Cairo Review interview with Lakhdar Brahimi
• Expedited Weapons Deliveries to Saudi Arabia Signal Deepening U.S. Involvement - NYT
  Sending weapons but not bothering to help stranded Americans.
• What really happened in Tikrit after ISIL fled - Al Jazeera English
• 600 days in jail for taking pictures: A letter from an Egyptian prison
• Perfectly Reasonable Question: Did The Times ‘Self-Censor’?
  In the UAE, its partner did.
• The Unknown Man, and the Deaths at Abu Zaabal
  Excellent reporting on a massacre of Egyptian prisoners