Automatically posted links for January 7th through January 8th:

• Bhutto Killing Roils Province, Spurring Call to Quit Pakistan - WSJ.com - Sindhis outraged, some call for armed insurgency, secession!


• Trip Notes from the Middle East - White House blogs during Middle East trip


• The Clash - Fouad Ajami, with hindsight, agrees with Huntington and fears for West


• Menassat - New NGO website on Arab media


• Egypt Police Officer Jailed 5 Years - Another conviction in a police abuse case


• G H A S B O U B A: Touareg Genocide - Very interesting interview (in French) of Niger Touareg leader


• An American in Iran - The New York Review of Books - Max Rodenbeck visits Iran

Automatically posted links for December 19th through January 5th:

• Fashion and Faith Meet, on Foreheads of the Pious - NYT article from Dec 2007 on that bizarre Egyptian fetish, the zebibah


• Al Jazeera appelée à présenter ses excuses - Al Jazeera called on by its Algerian staff to apologize for poll about Algiers attacks


• Le Monde.fr : Le Dakar 2008 a été annulé - Paris-Dakar race cancelled for first time because of "al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb" threats


• Benazir Bhutto | Economist.com - A good obituary


• AFP: Egyptian woman in legal test of SMS divorce: report - Woman argues third divorce SMS makes it legal


• Guardian's Tehran correspondent expelled without explanation - Robert Tait kicked out of Iran


• Anti-Zionist author kicks off speaking tour of Lebanon - Norman Finkelstein tour


• Du Nil à la Seine, l'étrange destin des Badraouis - Unusual story about an Egyptian village that specializes in emigrating to France


• U.S. envoy Jones starts Mideast security push - New American governor of Palestine arrives