Links 1-14 March 2017

Recent posts:

• Colin Kahl: Trump's "upside down duck"
• How the Egyptian Army Orchestra massacres national anthems
• Trump faces the same question as Bush and Obama in Afghanistan

And here are the links:

• Trump Adviser on Mideast Visits Region for Meetings With Netanyahu and Abbas - The New York Times
  His real estate lawyer.
• Russian special forces sent to back renegade Libyan general – reports | The Guardian
• Hearing | United States Commitee on Armed Services
  Testimony of CENTCOM and AFRICOM commanders
• Health Scare Fuels Talk About Algeria's Bouteflika | US News
  Disgraceful for Algeria.
• Egypt’s Christians Flee ISIS Violence | Human Rights Watch
• More salt water in Egypt's Nile Delta putting millions at grave risk - UPI
• The United States And The Future Of Egyptian-Russian Relations | Hoover Institution
  Michael Hanna
• De la naissance d’un nouveau « djihadistan » au Sahel
  Merger of jihadist groups in the Sahel under Iyad Ag Ghali
• The cleric and the president: Egypt’s critical power struggle | MadaMasr
  Good piece on Al Azhar and Sisi.
• Reforming Justice: The Failure of Politics and Rule-of-Law Reform in Egypt and Tunisia
  Nathan J. Brown and Benjamin Helfand.
• Students as a Barometer of Tunisian Society - Al-Fanar Media
  Ursula interviews Michael Ayari on his new book.
• Sahara occidental – Maroc : Christopher Ross jette l’éponge