Links for November 17th

Links from my del.icio.us account for November 17th:

• Ibn Yaaqub Al-Amriki: Egypt's Top Judge - Someone's caught on to the fact that Zakaria Abdel Aziz, the renegade Egyptian judge, is an Islamo-populist. I remember hearing him speak after the MB (rightly, courageously) defended the judges in 2006 and being astounded by his hyper-religious speech. But then again I never thought we should expect too much from Egyptian judges.


• Princeton University Press Special Online Sale Books in Middle Eastern Studies - PUP has big online sale - this links to the Middle Eastern Studies section.


• Jackson Diehl - Jackson Diehl Says Obama Will Have to Decide If He's on the Side of Democratic Reformers in the Middle East - washingtonpost.com - Egypt-basher Diehl challenges Obama to keep up the Bush democracy promotion agenda, with an eye on Egypt's next presidential elections.


• Top Obama aide denies report president-elect will back Arab peace plan - Haaretz - Israel News - Maybe he did back it, maybe he didn't. But once president he most definitely should.


• The Associated Press: Gadhafi: nations competing to sell arms to Libya - Interesting Qadhafi line from the end of that story: "Everything that is happening now was written in the Green Book 30 years ago already," Gadhafi said at a news conference in the Ukrainian capital. "And the Green Book says that dark-skinned people will rule the world."


• Welcome to My World, Barack - An Exit Interview with Condoleezza Rice - Interview - NYTimes.com - Condi Rice's advice to Obama on democracy promotion: "The Egyptians know that their next election is going to be an important transitional election. I think they’re going to insist on a different kind of election." And how will they "insist", then?


• لسه عايش - Blog of Amr Salama, Sinai University student whom security recently arrested and stopped from running in university elections. [Arabic]