Links 1-2 May 2011

• The Salafist challenge: Coming out of the Arab woodwork | The Economist
• gulfnews : McCarthyism in Gulf social media
  Very critical op-ed by Sultan al-Qassemi.
• QUNFUZ: Some shock, no awe | The Rossland Telegraph
  Robin Yassin-Kassab on Syria.
• News Desk: Bin Laden: Hey, Hey Goodbye : The New Yorker
  Lawrence Wright.
• The Reawakening of Nahda in Tunisia | MERIP
  Graham Usher on Tunisia's Islamists
• Bin Laden Is Dead, Obama Says - NYTimes.com
  Finally.
• French court rules that Israel shot Mohamed Al-Dorra's father - Ahram Online
• HSBC under fire over leading role in land deals for Mubarak regime | Business | The Observer
• VIDEO: Egypt's workers keep the revolution alive - Multimedia - Ahram Online
  Egyptian workers keeping the revolution alive
• The Guantanamo Files
  Jordon: 8 secret Guantanamo files released:
• The Guantanamo Files
  Saudi Arabia: 135 Guantanamo files released:
• Untitled (http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/middle-east-north-africa/north-africa/tunisia/106-popular-protests-in-north-africa-and-the-middle-east-iv-tunisias-way.aspx)
  Popular Protests in North Africa and the Middle East (IV): Tunisia’s Way (new @CrisisGroup report) #Tunisia
• Gigi Ibrahim - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 04/25/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
  For those who missed it, here's @Gsquare86 on the Daily Show earlier this week.
• THOUGH I KNOW THE RIVER IS DRY -- IndieGoGo
  A road trip movie through the collective memory of Palestine. @palestinefilm
• The Guantanamo Files
  Egypt: 6 secret Guantanamo files released
• The Guantanamo Files
  Algeria: 26 secret Guantanamo files released
• The Guantanamo Files
  UK: 9 secret Guatnanamo files released
• The Guantanamo Files
  Yemen: 110 secret Guantanamo files released
• BBC News - Bashar al-Assad's inner circle
  BBC has a great backgrounder on the top security officials in Syria People like Nassif, Mansoura, Hassan, Qudsiya
• Al-Jazeera suspends Syria operations