Links 15-22 March 2017

Recently on the blog:

• Saudi Arabia and Egypt warm up again
• Sloppy scholarship and the Arab uprisings
• The Anti-Cairo

And this week's links:

• Can Extremism Be Fought In the Classroom?
  Moroccan journalist Hicham Houdaifa looks at radicalism, link to education
• Warnings of a ‘Powder Keg’ in Libya as ISIS Regroups - The New York Times
• Trump won’t allow you to use iPads or laptops on certain airlines. Here’s why. - The Washington Post
  "The United States is weaponizing interdependence"
• Resurgent Syrian Rebels Surprise Damascus With New Assaults
• Warnings of a ‘Powder Keg’ in Libya as ISIS Regroups
• U.S. to ban some airline passengers from carrying larger electronics | Reuters
  Trump, always finding new ways to make us miserable.
• Was Libya’s Collapse Predictable?: Survival: Vol 59, No 2
  Wolfram Lacher
• The cocoon | Synaps
  Aya Fatima Chamseddine on youth and factionalism in Lebanon
• U.N. Diplomat Behind Report Accusing Israel of Apartheid Quits - NYT
  More Trumpian wars against reality.
• Saudi Arabia to restart Egypt oil shipments
  Cairo-Riyadh relations tightening in anticipation of anti-Iran Trump alliance?
• Des migrants coincés entre le Maroc et l'Algérie
  Algeria and Morocco blocking migrants in border zone with no food or water.
• Un jeune écrivain accusé de blasphème en Algérie - Libération
• How Egypt’s Activists Became ‘Generation Jail’
• WikiLeaks dump exposes an overweight CIA’s commercial links
  "puts President Eisenhower's fears over the military-industrial complex to shame"
• Morocco's king to replace PM Benkirane amid post-election deadlock
• Saudi Arabia launches girls' council - without any girls - BBC News
• WH/OMB Releases FY2018 Budget Blueprint – @StateDept/@USAID Hit With 28% Funding Cuts « Diplopundit
• Over Half of Yemen’s Population in Food Crisis
• Les djihadistes gagnants à un contre cent dans le Sinaï | Un si Proche Orient
• Analysis: Al Qaeda groups reorganize in West Africa | FDD's Long War Journal
• La société des loisirs et la politique du bonheur (2/2) : Jeddah et son Comic Con
• Gamal: The Pub’s Child
  About the bartender at the Spitfire in Alexandria, one of my all-time favorite bars.
• J. Jason Mitchell · The Libyan Coastguard · LRB
• Algeria’s New Imprint
  Great portrait of the wonderful Editions Barzakh (but they aren't new, were established in 2000)
• Charting a Course Toward Cultural Decolonization | Quarterly Conversation
  On the deeply influential Moroccan leftist cultural magazine Souffles