Links June 23rd to July 4th

Links from my del.icio.us account for June 23rd through July 4th:

• Almasry Alyoum: Opinion Poll: Gov't Unfair; People's Assembly Hypocrite; Local Administration Loose - Is your local councilman a slut? Joking aside, figures show self-perception of Egyptians as helpless and downtrodden


• Almasry Alyoum - Ministry Of Interior Calls Scholars To Train State Security Investigation Officers On Combating The Shiite Ideology - Includes courses on detecting taqiya, learning names of 12 imams


• BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel denies injuring reporter - Prize-winning Palestinian journo mysteriously "falls" in Israeli detention, breaks ribs, has nervous breakdown


• RearVision - The Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt - Australian radio show features our own Josh Stacher, Tariq Ramadan, Gilles Kepel, and Matthias Kuntzel.


• FT.com / World - Saudis have no magic wand - Roula Khalaf says it's not the Saudi's fault that oil prices are high


• Western extras play bit parts in new Egyptian film - Info on the extras industry in Egypt, new Omar Sharif vehicle


• The Food Price Crisis in the Arab Countries: Short Term Responses to a Lasting Challenge - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Carnegie looks at Arab strategies for dealing with food crisis


• The National Interest | Pax Corleone
  - US foreign policy seen as Godfather analogy