Links for 10/10/07

A fragrant potpourri handpicked from the internets:

• The sun sets early on the American Century, by Philip S Golub (Twilight of empire)
• IntelliBriefs: Egypt: Security, Political, and Islamist Challenges (Long paper on Egypt)
• Iraq - Kanan Makiya - Saddam Hussein - New York Times (Dexter Filkins profiles Kanan Makiya)
• "Cervantes’s Golden Age" by Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) (Don Quijote, early music, Andalusia)
• Bin Laden may be in city, not cave: ex-spy chief (Urban Osama?)
• "Facts and Darfur" by Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine) (Spinning Darfur)
• Comment is free: Land of the free? (Richard Silverstein on the Lobby)
• Inside Higher Ed :: Are You Ready for 'Islamo-Fascism Week'? (It's that time of the year again)

Regarding the last item, you may be interested to follow the GWU controversy over the poster below (put up by anti-'Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week' activists) over at the Angry Arab. Also since our friend Abu Aardvark is at GWU, he may have more info (once he recovers from his Ikhwan marathon).