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• Mahfouz materials withdrawn from Sotheby's auction | Al-Masry Al-Youm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.