Links 4-8 May 2011
A large linkdump...
- Hasidic Paper Removes Hillary Clinton From Osama Picture - FailedMessiah.com
Jewish fundamentalists, as stupid as Salafists.
- Attacks on Mar Mina Church in Imbaba, Giza | Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
- What I Don't See at the Revolution | Politics | Vanity Fair
Yet again, Hitchens writes of what he knows not.
- Rights group: Syria uprising death toll reaches 800 - Haaretz
Assad is going down.
- Reform in Morocco: caught between terror and the king - The National
- Suspect in Morocco Bombing Had Guitar and Wore a Wig - NYTimes.com
- End of Mideast Wholesale - NYTimes.com
The usual bias aside, a good metaphor from Tom Friedman for once.
- Egypt should re-embrace progressive taxation | Al-Masry Al-Youm
- Will Saudi Arabia lead Egypt's counter-revolution? | Al-Masry Al-Youm
- Egypt, I like your style | Al-Masry Al-Youm
My column on Egypt's new foreign policy.
- Egypt’s foreign minister on the way forward after Mubarak - The Washington Post
Interview with ElAraby
- Shifting Sands: Political Transitions in the Middle East, Pt. II
POMED notes on congressional testimony.
- Bahrain accuses activists of plots to topple state - Yahoo! News
- ÉGALITÉ...: Ces "amis" du Roi qui menacent la stabilité du Maroc
Majidi et al-Himma, bien entendu.
- How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis - By Frederick Kaufman | Foreign Policy
- Bin Laden’s Secret Life in a Shrunken World, Domestic but Dark - NYTimes.com
- U.S. Support for Pakistan: A Long Messy History : The New Yorker
Larry Wright.
- AFP: Peace demo at Morocco blast site as Qaeda deny blame
- Administration planning $1 billion debt relief for Egypt - WaPo
Expect this to come with strings attached.
- Nephew of Sadat killer returns to Egypt from Iran - FoxNews.com
- Syria's activists reach out to Assad: "You will be the pride of contemporary Syria ... You're not Kadhafi!"
- Gaddafi destroys Misrata rebels' fuel supply in air raid
Not good.
- U.S. labor urges trade pact with Bahrain be suspended (Reuters)
- Perspectives #2 Mai 2011, Special Issue: People's Power - The Arab World in Revolt
A lot of good articles in this, including by me.
- EGYPT: After Mubarak, the Military Fist - IPS ipsnews.net
On military trials.
- BBC News - Libya: Opposition outline post-Gaddafi 'road map'
- Libya's black refugees: Caught in the middle | The Economist
Terrible racism from the Libyan rebels.
- The Fateful Choice | MERIP
The path not taken on 9/11
- Muslim Brotherhood's football hopes trigger sarcasm - Egyptian League - Sports - Ahram Online
Muslim Brotherhood's football hopes trigger sarcasm via @ahramonline #Mb #egypt
- SPIEGEL Interview with Former Syrian Vice President: 'A Boundless Fury Has Been Building Up' - SPIEGEL
Khaddam.
- Arab Unrest Threatens Turkey’s Newfound Influence - NYT
Overstatement: Turkey will readjust, as others will.
- Extortion bid causes gun battle in Cairo, 89 wounded
Nuts.
- Clinton Leaves Door Open After Palestinian Deal - NYTimes.com
For Congress to shut.
- جريدة القبس :: العربى و الدولى :: آآآهٍ.. لو كنتُ زوجته :: 04/05/2011
RT @ahmed: Kuwaiti columnist writes a love letter to Bin Laden, says she dreams of being one of his wives: #OBL
- Untitled (http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/424904)
...and there's the inevitable split between Islamists and leftists in Egypt.
- Arab Reform Bulletin - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Bahrain: Kingdom of Silence, by @tobycjones
- Syria Steps Up Raids in Damascus Suburbs - NYTimes.com
Reaching the capital...
- Clinton: Mideast protests are a rejection of bin Laden's ideology
And of US poodles and policies.
- FT.com - Clinton warns Syria over crackdown
But still nothing on Bahrain.
- Bahrain's medics are the targets of retribution | Joe Stork
- Mud & dirt cakes for Mubarak on his birthday
- BBC News - Egypt ex-minister Habib al-Adly jailed for 12 years
#Egypt's former interior minister El Adly has been sentenced to 12 years for money laundering (BBC) #Jan25
- FACTBOX-Political risks to watch in the United Arab Emirates | Reuters
Reuters Factbox: Key political risks to watch in Saudi Arabia & the UAE
- FACTBOX-Key political risks to watch in Saudi Arabia | Reuters
Reuters Factbox: Key political risks to watch in Saudi Arabia & the UAE
- Two bloggers in Saudi Arabia arrested due to strict media laws
Digital Trends: Two bloggers in Saudi Arabia arrested due to strict media law
- Bribes and prejudice: why anti-graft measures worry Egypt's economists - Economy - Business - Ahram Online
Bribes and prejudice: why anti-graft measures worry Egypt via @ahramonline
- Hidden Workshops Add to Libyan Rebels’ Arsenal in Misurata - NYTimes.com
Rebels' Mad Max stype car workshops.
- Untitled (http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/423527)
Grand Egyptian Museum on schedule to open in 2015 #Museums #Egypt
- US Centcom targets online violent propaganda
Jillian York on US online psy-ops that will feed the conspiracies.
- The Arab World in Transition: Assessing the Economic Impact
Report on Arab economies.