Links for May 5-9 2010

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• South Sudan's biggest ethnic group: On your tractor, if you can | The Economist

  On the Dinkas.

• Al-Ahram Weekly | Opinion | Islamist shortcomings

  Hamzawy on the limits of Islamist participation when politics remains closed off.

• Haim Saban, producer, in Hollywood, Washington, Israel : The New Yorker

  Profile of key Israel lobby funder.

• Postcard from Tehran - By Hooman Majd | Foreign Policy

  An informative piece.

• American anger over IDF use of US Army uniforms for prisoners in stockade « Coteret

  Surplus US uniforms used in Israel prisons.

• The World's Top Dissidents: Aung San Suu Kyi, the Dalai Lama, and more | Foreign Policy

  Plenty of Middle Easterners there.

• The other Egypt - The National Newspaper

  Jack Shenker on Upper Egypt.

• Dar al-Hadith دار الحديث

  New blog by Ibn Siqilli on hadiths.

• ei: Quartet ex-envoy's investment helps Israel greenwash settlements

  James Wolfensohn invest in settlement company.

• Arab world mourns loss of leading intellectual - The National Newspaper

  Mohammed Abed al Jabri.

• Harrods sold for £1.5bn as Mohamed Al Fayed retires | Business | guardian.co.uk

  The queen's baqal stays Arab hamdullah.

• Hend Rostom After 30 Years

  Zeinobia on the Egyptiam bombshell actress.

• J Street, European Style: New Dovish Lobby Launches – Forward.com

  BHL is involved which is all I need to know.

• Book review: A Mosque in Munich - WSJ.com

  New book on Muslim Brotherhood's European efforts.

• وزارة الإتصالات وتكنولوجيا المعلومات

  The first Arabic domain name is Egypt's Ministry of CIT: http://موقع.وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر/. Now can we replace http?

• The Internet has changed forever, and no one seems to have noticed — Crooked Timber

  On ICANN and the new Arabic TLDs.

• Algeria: Stop Suppressing Protests | Human Rights Watch

  Protests blocked, Facebook group closed.

• IAEA chief focuses on Israel

  Amano wants to get support to pressure Israel to join NPT.

• All played out: a Middle Eastern football fantasy that fails to score - The National Newspaper

  Review of "Drumbeat".

• Citizen holds one-man pro-Mubarak demo | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt

  LOL.

• The Associated Press: From meat to wages, economic woes fuel Egypt anger

  Pricey meat and more.

• On An Overgrown Path: I am in an even larger prison

  On Gnawa music and rituals in Morocco.

• WORDS OF WISDOM: MOHAMMED ELBARADEI ON THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR ISSUE « The Race for Iran

  Says Bush missed opportunities and outlines Iranian ambitions.