Links 23-26 December 2011

• Muslim Brotherhood member files lawsuit against 3 Revolutionary Socialists - Ahram
  Disgusting. (Update: I am told it was withdrawn on 25 December.)
• Military-owned factories threaten farmers' livelihoods in Fayoum | Al-Masry Al-Youm
• Public figures in Egypt advocate early presidential elections - Ahram
• That Tele-Islamist demagogue: Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
  Told to preach at Abdel Wahab mosque.
• Stratfor Hacked, 200GB Of Emails, Credit Cards Stolen, Client List Released | ZeroHedge
  Anonymous' latest. But what did Stratfor do?
• Spin the Globe: Ryan Knighton in Cairo
  A Canadian blind man's experience — wonderful.
• Fresh Tunisian Movement Grows - IWPR
  Occupy Bardo keeps new govt honest.
• Islamism and the Arab awakening - FT.com
  Argues that Turkey, not Saudi will be Islamists' model - not in Egypt though methinks.
• Assad's Lebanese Invasion - By Mitchell Prothero | Foreign Policy
  Shame on March 8.
• Tunisia's Economic Challenges - Carnegie
  Report by Lahcen Achy.
• Egyptian Military Adviser Calls Attack on Woman Justified - NYTimes.com
  NYT will Gen. Kato into the most ignominous SCAF member. Name lends itself to it, sounds very Star Wars.
• Drip, Jordan by Ben Ehrenreich
  Israel's water war against Palestine, in Harpers.
• Don't Stop at Iraq: Why the U.S. Should Withdraw from the Entire Persian Gulf - Toby C. Jones - International - The Atlantic
  Toby Jones.
• Now The Bombs « Qunfuz
  Robin Yassin-Kassab on the Syrian bombings.
• ‫جوزيه يرتدي تيشيرت عليه صورة شهيد مصر محمد مصطفي‬‎ - YouTube
  Ahly coach Manuel Jose wears T-shirt with martyr's image.
• Felix Arabia: UAE revokes citizenship of several Islamists
• Resurrecting Boulac Bridge
  I like this idea.
• ‫مسخرة : توفيق عكاشة جايب عريس لنوارة نجم واسماء محفوظ‬‎ - YouTube
  the Tharwat Okasha "comedy" (more like threat against Asma Mahfouz and Nawara Negm) #scaf
• BBC News - Eric Hobsbawm on 2011: ‘It reminds me of 1848...’
• Tunisie : la mauvaise foi des intégristes | Jeuneafrique.com
  On Tunisian Salafis.
• Blog: Walls go up | Al-Masry Al-Youm
  Excellent post by Sarah Carr.
• Wired For Repression - Bloomberg
  Visualization of the surveillance market and its victims.