Links 1-3 November 2012
Links ahoy!
- Pourquoi nos médecins font la grève ?
Tunisia's doctors on strike, like Egypt's.
- A marriage of convenience - Le Monde diplomatique
This Eric Rouleau has Egypt becoming a "quasi-theocracy" in 1980.
- The Brotherhood in power: Governance kills the project
Ibrahim Houdaiby.
- Doctors still struggling for decent conditions | moftasa.net
On the doctors' strike.
- SHE2I2: Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood targets trade unions
- Egypt: from military to religious dictatorship? - Le Monde diplomatique
Good piece but does not get Aug. 12 fully right.
- Morocco's Islamists, in government but not in power - Le Monde diplomatique
Wendy Kristianasen.
- Tunisia's new opposition - Le Monde diplomatique
On UGTT, which was key during uprising, unlike Ennahda.
- Gulf cools towards Muslim Brothers - Le Monde diplomatique
Alain Gresh.
- Le Figaro - International : Alger demande la «repentance» de la France
- The Revolution Becomes More Islamist « P U L S E
And so what, asks Robin Yassin-Kassab
- Welcome to Pomegranate
The Economist's new Middle East blog, at long last.
- Ali Ferzat to Relaunch His Satirical Magazine, Al-Domari, in Egypt | Arabic Literature (in English)
- Sinai Becomes Prison for African Migrants - NYTimes.com
- Is Bishop Rafael Holding a Jedi Light Sabre?
Disney might sue. - Morocco's Citizen Subjects - NYTimes.com
My latest for Latitude.
- La couverture du Point sur l’islam : « Décomplexée » | Mon œil ! | Rue89
- Tunisia’s Challenges - NYT
Not sure why Essebsi - who did much to steer Tunisia through transition - is criticized here.
- Tunisia, a Sad Year Later - NYTimes.com
Completely over the top.
- As Morsi and Brotherhood spur alarm, what to do about Egypt? | JTA - Jewish & Israel News
Shock, horror, MB anti-Semitic!
- Inhumaines prisons marocaines | Le Maghreb dans tous ses Etats
- Mursi’s first big move is closing shop | THE DAILY STAR
Maria Golia on the stupid, probably unenforceable, move to close shops by 10pm.
- IISS Extremism spreads across West Africa and the Sahel
- The man who could determine whether the west is drawn into Mali's war | World news | The Observer
- Nieman Reports | The Fighter
Abou Bakr Jamai reviews Henri Alleg's memoirs.