Links 30 Sept. - 4 October 2011

• Histories of a City: the many hands that shaped today's Cairo - The National
• The war on error - FT.com
  Good critique of Hitchens, esp. in his Middle Eastern writings.
• Un Nobel arabe politiquement correct ? Epargnez aux Arabes un tel soutien ! | Culture et politique arabes
• Send Down the Basket! | Cairo, Fall 2011
  Margaret Litvin's blog.
• Foreign companies face Arab spring fallout - FT.com
  Moral hazard.
• Islamists Today: Islamists and the Revolution
  Khalil Anani.
• Hosni Mubarak nominated for Israeli award 
  (It should be noted here that this is not a prize, it's a feature in a mag and one journalist nominated Mubarak.) 
• SCAF’s Assault on Egypt’s Civil Society - By Stephen McInerney
• AQIM Returns in Force in Northern Algeria | Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
• Remarks With Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr After Their Meeting
  Clinton, full of praise for SCAF.
• BAHRAIN: U.S. Congress Urged to Reject Arms Sale - IPS
• Hate Speech Finds a Mainstream Platform
  On HRW's anti-Palestinian Robert Bernstein.
• The tides of mosques.
  More Nir Rosen on Syria.
• A conversation with Grand Mufti Hassoun
  Nir Rosen talks to a pro-regime Syrian Sheikh.
• Top Oil and Gas Executives Had Major Presence at Bahrain Conference | Truthout