Links 25 August 2011

Cartoon about Somalia by Osama Hajjaj (link below)

• Governor honors 'flagman,' awards him with apartment | Al-Masry Al-Youm
  Only in Egypt.
• The Scramble for Access to Libya’s Oil Wealth Begins - NYTimes.com
• Video: Libya: Tripoli's Rixos hotel captive journalists freed - Telegraph
  With a cameo by our own Abu Ray.
• Exulting over Libya
  Phil Weiss.
• Italy seeks to restore oil ties with Libya - FT.com
  A lot at stake for Italy.
• Are food prices approaching a violent tipping point? | Damian Carrington
  Study says Arab uprisings sparked by high food prices.
• An Egyptian Police officer : El Adly secret’s cell responsible for Soad Hosni death and Reda Halal’s disappearance
  Treat with caution.
• Egypt Names Antiquities Chief to Replace Hawass
  SCA downgraded.
• Egypt rights groups complain of official 'crackdown'
  SCAF "conducting a campaign" against HR groups.
• Why the Libyan revolution may not matter very much
  Steve Walt, with a point.
• The martyr state myth
  Good piece on ridiculous idea that nuclear Iran would not respect deterrence,
• Egypt's Wild West - By Mohamed Fadel Fahmy | Foreign Policy
  About Sinai
• Egypt’s Economic Woes | The Weekly Standard
  Poor reporting - most stats cited are out of date.
• Egyptian economy in 'alarming' state, says EU ambassador | Al-Masry Al-Youm
  So it EU's, mind you.
• Al Akhbar
  Lebanese lefty paper's English site.
• Bahrain government fires hundreds of employees for political views - CSMonitor.com
• BBC News - St Andrews student guilty of Israel flag racism
  Ridiculous.
• Our Wiki World: Gaddafi's Photos 1969 - 2011, 42 years in power
  The ravages of time.
• Osama Hajjaj - somalia
  Powerful cartoon by Osama Hajjaj from Amman #somalia
• Eni Lobbies to Keep Oil Dominance in Libya After Qaddafi- Bloomberg
  RT @janekinninmont: Oil companies are busily lobbying TNC members about the future of #Libya's oil sector: