Links June 8th to June 10th
Links from my del.icio.us account for June 8th through June 10th:
- New boss is determined to keep the faith at Al-Jazeera | Media | The Observer - New MD at Al-J English faces distribution discrimination
- Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | Can Qatar do it again? - Is Qatar trying to do for the Palestinians what it did for the Lebanese?
- Egypt population could more than double by 2050: Mubarak - Yahoo! News - Hosni carps on about population growth
- Tough Words From This Cheney on U.S. Mideast Policy - washingtonpost.com - Liz Cheney says US policy not neocon enough at AIPAC panel
- Muting the Alarm over the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Harvard - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs - Academic study shows NYT misreports IP conflict
- Egypt's Growth Tested by Food, Oil Turmoil - WSJ.com - On how the Nazif govt is dealing with rising prices
- FT.com / Reports / Youth in the Middle East & North Africa - FT Special, many interesting articles
- FT.com / Comment & analysis / Editorial comment - Demographic time-bomb in Mideast - FT Special argues "the scale of advance the region needs is not possible while despotism persists."
- The Daily Star - Repression, the Arab state's foul habit - Rami Khouri on Egypt and institutional decay in the Arab world
By Rami G. Khouri
Daily Star staff
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
The Egyptian Parliament's decision last week to extend emergency rule for another two years, including sweeping powers to detain - US professors face hostile reception in Jerusalem | World news | The Guardian - Walt & Mearsheimer in Israel
- In Yemen, a Mostly Concealed Sectarian Fight Endures - Article on Yemen troubles looks at the influence of Iran-Saudi rivalry
- Mr. Obama's Middle East - washingtonpost.com - Editorial says after AIPAC speech on "indivisible Jerusalem" that on Middle East, Obama is Bush-plus
- FT.com / In depth - Oil: Key players and movements - Nice Flash interactive map of oil geopolitics