Links October 28th to October 29th

Links from my del.icio.us account for October 28th through October 29th:

• Washington Times - GOULDEN: Eddy and the Mideast - Story of arabist spy Bill Eddy.


• Harvard Iranian Oral History Project Harvard University - Personal recordings from the 1920s to the 1980s from Iran.


• Welcome to POMED’s Country Pages Project | Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) - POMED launches "country pages" covering Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and Morocco.


• The Israel Lobby Archive - Very interesting historical documents tracking the history of the Israel lobby in the United States, notably previously confidential material from the 1960s. Bookmark it!


• U.S. Mulls Talks With Taliban in Bid to Quell Afghan Unrest - WSJ.com - Petraeus backs initiative to talk to "moderate" Taliban, driving a wedge with "irreconciliable" elements.


• Egypt sheikh backs women's right to beat husbands - Middle East Times - First all the wife-swapping, now this...