Links for August 21-28 2010

Few links this week as we were traveling...

• Hudson Inst primary financial backer of NGO behind campaign to purge Israeli universities of “leftists” « Coteret

  For neocons, Israel or America, same difference.

• The Internet's Secret Back Door

  How Etisalat has snooping powers.

• Morocco's Burgeoning Musical Scene | The Middle East Channel

  Nayda is not really movida.

• Gamal Mubarak’s non-campaign | Al-Masry Al-Youm

  My latest column.

• Is the Middle East becoming a clean-energy mecca? - By Eric Lukas | The Oil and the Glory

  Nuclear and renewable energy on the rise.

• Al-Qaida in Yemen: Poverty, corruption and an army of jihadis willing to fight | The Guardian

  Ghaith Abul-Ahad reports.

• The "Peace Process" is Still Going Nowhere | Stephen M. Walt

  Because the Israelis have no interest in peace.

• Wafd Party president buys Al-Dostour newspaper | Al-Masry Al-Youm

  Interesting...

• Egyptians prepare for life after Mubarak - The Independent

  I'm preparing for life after Robert Fisk. Riddled with errors.

• Demagoguing the Mosque by Ron Paul

  "This is all about hate and Islamaphobia."

• Congratulations to the Brotherhood | Al-Masry Al-Youm

  Magdi Gallad on the MB soap opera.

• The Sinai riddle: Security or development? | Al-Masry Al-Youm

  Great reporting by Lina Attalah.

• The Magnes Zionist: Islamophobia as the New Antisemitism

  "Using the term "New Antisemitism" to describe this bigotry is much more appropriate than using it to describe anti-Zionism or anti-Israelism; the latter often have nothing to do with anti-Semitism, and when they do, it is with the old anti-Semitism."