Links 13-19 December 2011
- نصف ساعة مع ابنى خالد - علاء عبد الفتاح - بوابة الشروق
Abu Khaled's latest - #freealaa
- Egypt's Economy in the Transitional Period | Chatham House
- Alaa al-Aswany: 'Overthrowing Mubarak was too good to be true'
Interview with Fisk.
- US lawmakers legalise indefinite detention - Al Jazeera English
Emergency Law comes to the USA.
- Special Report: Libya - divided it stands | Reuters
Good long piece.
- Revolution and Art in Syria
On new exhibition in NYC.
- AFP: Rabat et Madrid en colère après le blocage d'un accord de pêche contesté
- داعية سلفي: وجه المرأة كفرجها
The Salafi sheikh who compared women's faces to their vaginas. I find his face looks like a penis.
- Mother, 32, set to become first woman to be jailed for wearing an Islamic veil | Mail Online
Barbaric.
- The power of mice
Nice column by Brian Whitaker on the Arab uprisings.
- Libyan Tycoon Husni Bey Tells All - Businessweek
Interesting profile.
- Security Reform in Sudan: Efforts and Possibilities
Historical overview of security services, etc. [PDF]
- Syria: ‘Shoot to Kill’ Commanders Named | Human Rights Watch
New report.
- Yasser Borhami - Who's who - Elections 2011 - Ahram Online
RT @ahramonline: Yasser Borhami from the Salafist movement behind Al-Nour party #egyelections @ahramonline
- Libya’s Central bank expected to have sanctions lifted |
Must Read article on the state of Libya's banking system
- Freedom & Justice Party FJP
Official website.
- Cabinet sit-in hit by mass food poisoning, dozens hospitalized | Al-Masry Al-Youm
Disgraceful.
- Mahfouz materials withdrawn from Sotheby's auction | Al-Masry Al-Youm
- Damascus on the Edge
- A Theory of “Late Rentierism” in the Arab States of the Gulf
By Matthew Gray [PDF]
- FBI Whistleblower: 'Hundreds of US-NATO Soldiers Arrive & Begin Operations on the Jordan-Syria Border'
- Morocco's bottom-up movement for reform
On #Feb20
- Morocco’s new leaders draw up battle lines - FT.com
If only!
- Hazem Shoman and the Salafists
Good post
- Can you imagine the uproar if the mayor was Muslim?
The war on Christmas, Israeli edition.