Automatically posted links for February 6th through February 7th:

• Moroccan Held for Alleged Royal ID Theft - Moulay Rachid's identity stolen on Facebook


• Nominee Backs Human Rights in Egypt - Margaret Scobey, future US Ambassador to Cairo, promises to fight for rights, Nour but discount aid pressure


• US admiral confirms secret camp at Gitmo - On secret facility of al-Qaeda suspects (so what does that make the others exactly?)


• Arab state power is on the defensive - Rami Khouri on decentralization and governance


• Be Riberar - Funny column by Magdy Gallad about schizo government


• Project on Defense Alternatives Infogate - PDA, a centrist security policy think tank, has revamped info, document and bookmark collection


• World Leaders Gather To Roast Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | The Onion - "Musharraf went on to update the group on the status of Ahmadinejad's mouth, opening the floor to debate on whether or not it has sheltered a greater number of fundamentalist Muslim dicks than the Sudan."


• Qatar focuses on its currency policy - Doha may drop dollar peg

Automatically posted links for January 29th through February 3rd:

• Qatar reports new damage to Gulf undersea cables - Fourth time in a week - I think there's a conspiracy afoot


• Libya Sovereign Wealth Fund to Shun U.S., Ghanem Says - Qadhafi puts his country's money elsewhere


• Ezzedine Choukri: "?? ???? ????? ?? ????? ???? ??? ?" - Rafah episode shows current situation is losing one for all


• The path of centrist political Islam by Khalil Al-Anani - Al-Anani says MB hopeless, Wasat way forward


• Robert Fisk: The curious case of the forged biography - Fisk, hagiographer of Saddam Hussein


• Making a Great Arab City - I like this Rami Khouri piece on Dubai even though I am skeptical, because it praises the tradition of Arab cosmopolitan urbanism


• Arab Media Watch Arab Media Watch > Home - UK outfit combats anti-Arab bias in press


• Hamas explodes a giant hole in Egypt's political cover - Op-ed takes Egypt's hypocrisy on Palestine to task


• It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton - Faraday prize winner defends historic Arab scholarship


• For sale: West?s deadly nuclear secrets - Whistleblower says top US officials sold nuke secrets to Pakistan (the person is not named in the article, but others say it's Marc Grossman)


• Al-Jazeera Journalist Arrested in Egypt - Howeida Taha arrested, again


• AFP: Egypt censors book fair - Mohammed Choukri, Milan Kundera, Elias Khoury, Hanan al-Sheikh censored from Cairo Book Fair.

Automatically posted links for January 23rd through January 24th:

• Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi : "La Mauritanie n'est pas un pays de prédilection pour les terroristes" - Afrique - Le Monde interview with Mauritanian president


• Egypt holds scores from Brotherhood over Gaza protests - Backlash against MB for organizing first major protests since 2006


• Gazans flood through Egypt border - Things are not looking good, especially as Israelis have cut fuel supplies again


• YouTube - TPMtv: War of Attrition - Excerpts from Democratic debate - some good jousting there


• The worst market crisis in 60 years - George Soros in the FT on the current financial crisis

Automatically posted links for January 14th:

• Daily Kos: Bush fawns over the U.A.E. - Great takedown of Bush's appraisal of UAE as "model society"


• Total, Suez, Areva to build two nuclear plants in Abu Dhabi - The Middle East nuclear race that really matters


• Bush Nudges Mideast on Democracy - Story number 129747247 on Bush abandoning democracy talk


• Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel - Tiny Iranian boats not aggressive and posed no threat


• Pursuing happiness behind the veil - The LAT's Jeffrey Fleishman: king of the mixed metaphor


• Islamists emerge in stifled Tunisia - Returnee mujahideen spell trouble


• Kuwait set to invest as Merrill seeks $4bn - Another big Gulfie investment in top Western financial firm


• EGYPT HOLDS ARMY OFFICERS FOR 'PLOTTING ISRAEL ATTACKS' - Now, if you were an Egyptian Islamist in the army, would it be Israel that's your target?


• EGYPT: Iraqi refugee return driven by lack of money IRIN Middle East | Middle East | Egypt | EGYPT: Iraqi refugee return driven by lack of money | Early Warning Refugees/IDPs | News Item - Iraqis fleeing death find poverty in Egypt

Automatically posted links for December 3rd:

• Wolfowitz Back in Govt.? - Rice appoints Wolfie to International Security Advisory Board


• Younger Muslims Tune In to Upbeat Religious Message - New Egyptian televangelist is former playboy, "better than Brad Pitt"


• Enquête de l?ADFM sur le port du voile : «Le hijab est un phénomène de mode au Maroc» - Study on veil in Morocco says it's mostly about fashion, girls' freedom


• Citi of Arabia - WSJ hyperventilates about dirty Arabs buying 5% of big bank


• In The Tank: Did National Review Reporter Make His Stories Up? - There is a growing dispute over the veracity of reporting from Lebanon by former Marine W. Thomas Smith, Jr. who is posting reports on his blog, The Tank, published by the conservative website, National Review Online (NRO). Smith is a supporter of the war