Links 10-17 February 2012

Above, a short feature by Simon Hannna on the events in Port Said.

• Alcohol sales banned in Egypt's new suburbs residential areas: Regulator - Ahram Online
  Priorities!
• World Bank grants Egypt US$6.7 mn for water resources | Egypt Independent
• Egypt without the Brotherhood - Opinion - Ahram Online
  Ibrahim El-Houdaiby makes good points about the political class being increasingly defined by its stance towards Muslim Brotherhood.
• The protests woke us up to Western policy in the Middle East - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
• Pour les peuples berbères, ce qui se passe au Mali est «une vraie révolution» | Mediapart
• Militants Infiltrate Towns in Freed Areas of Mali - NYTimes.com
• Egypt's Police to Get 100,000 9mm Pistols
  Egypt really needs more small arms on the market.
• لحظة قتل المتهم بقتل ظابط بني سويف‬‎ - YouTube
  Video: Man apparently about to be lynched in Beni Suief: (via @yeh1a)
• Testimonies of Mohamed Mahmud | مركز النديم
  By Nadeem Center.
• Libya v. the ICC « LRB blog
  Dispute over trial of Seif.
• New draft law would limit the scope of work of NGOs | Egypt Independent
• Missing activist found bound, naked, tortured in desert | Egypt Independent
  Another one.
• The 2012 Constitution of Egypt, Translated by Nivien Saleh, with Index | Nivien Saleh
  A new translation
• Clashing with the Ultras: A Firsthand Account
• Just who is destroying the state, Mr Minister? - Opinion - Ahram Online
  Op-ed by Khaled Fahmy
• Business exodus aids Syria’s neighbours - FT.com
  War sparks Syrian investment boom in Gulf, Jordan & Egypt
• World Press Photo 2013 prizewinners – in pictures | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
• Gazans need a new lifeline from stifling blockade - The National
• France funded Mali foes with ransom payments: US envoy - YouTube
• The Brothers and the Emirates | The Majalla Magazine
• The Associated Press: Egypt seizes 2 tons of explosives headed to Sinai
• FJP aims for outright majority in new Parliament | Egypt Independent
• Shopping Option C for Syria - By Marc Lynch | Foreign Policy
• Israel’s Rightward Shift Leaves Palestinian Citizens Out in the Cold | MERIP
• Brotherhood Wages War On Egyptian Media - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
• دوللى شاهين: المهم أظافر وشعر وحواجب «مُهجة» | المصري اليوم، أخبار اليوم من مصر
  The Brotherhoodization of the state -- list of positions and names
• Egypt's Security Juggernaut: Why Morsi Embraces Corrupt Police | World Policy Institute
• Inside the Islamic Emirate of Timbuktu - By Harald Doornbos and Jenan Moussa | Foreign Policy
• Egypt sees return of currency black market - FT.com
• IRI Poll: Tunisians Look for Improvements in Government Performance | International Republican Institute (IRI)
• The Brian Lehrer Show: Egypt Two Years After Mubarak's Ouster - WNYC
  Feat. Josh Stacher. Good listen.
• Ghaith Abdul-Ahad · How to Start a Battalion (in Five Easy Lessons): In Syria · LRB 21 February 2013
• Egypt culture minister retracts resignation - Channel NewsAsia
  "after pleas from intellectuals"
• Egypt: Gunmen Steal Central Bank Chief's Car - ABC News
• amal kenawy (1974–2012) - artforum.com / slant
• Gridlock continues - Opinion - Ahram Online
  Op-Ed By NAder Fergany
• The determinants of social stability in Egypt - Opinion - Ahram Online
  Op-Ed by Tarek Osman
• Tunisie: Un coup d’état « médiatico-consensuel » et plus encore si affinité
• Egypt approves new protest law | The Nation
  New protest law bans chanting 'deemed defamatory or insulting to religion or state institutions.'