Links 17-27 March 2014

• The Obama Doctrine
  Gary Sick on Obama's uber-realist (unrealistic?) MENA policy
• Egypt army extends power by taking charge of Gulf aid
• Egypt: The Revolution’s Last Stand - The Daily Beast
  On student unrest.
• Petites guerres locales en Libye
  Good piece on the difficulty of "reading" Libya.
• Meet Egypt’s next would-be president | Mada Masr
  Reminds us that Sisi + army said he would not run.
• BBC News - Abdul Fattah al-Sisi: New face of Egypt's old guard
  Long profile.
• Sisi 2014!
  Steve Cook on the challenges facing Sisi.
• Occidental’s $8 Billion Deal Stalled by Brotherhood Row - Bloomberg
  Fallout of GCC divide.
• Saudi Arabia: A kingdom on guard - FT
  Long piece by Roula Khalaf on Saudi, Egypt, MB, GCC, etc.
• Report: Qatar's World Cup Expected To Take More Lives Than 9/11
  What a headline.
• Time to Get Tough on Egypt - Shadi Hamid - POLITICO
• Meet Egypt’s next would-be president
  So Sisi has announced...
• Between the Nuremberg Trials and the “Glorious” Egyptian Judiciary » CounterPunch
  Number-crunching a judicial travesty
• Betrayed by Charles Simic | NYRblog
  On crowds, power, double-standards.
• Egyptian army’s role expands as it gives land for homes - FT
  Heba Saleh snags a rare interview with chief army accountant.
• L’Arabie saoudite, alliée objective du Qatar ?
• Egypt’s Miscarriage of Justice - NYT
  "There is no way that the proceeding can be seen as anything other than a show trial with a preordained political outcome."
• Egyptian television celebrates mass death sentence | Mada Masr
  Or the moral disintegration of Egypt's media elite.
• Lysenko's time | Mada Masr
  Learned, lucid piece on regime charlatanism by @alaa.
• Qatar prepares for sanctions if Brotherhood dispute escalates - FT
• Carnegie roundtable on the "Egypt effect"
• AP : Libya's guns free-for-all fuels region's turmoil
• Good analytic piece.
• Turkey Goes Out of Control by Christopher de Bellaigue
  "The Turkish miracle is over."
• Reconsidering the “Transition Paradigm” [PDF]
  Fukuyama, Diamond, etc.
• The Candidate from a Different Planet
  Libyan PM hopeful is married to a Bronfman.
• Gilead offers Egypt new hepatitis C drug at 99 percent discount | Reuters
  But the army's koftagi will do it for less!
• The roots and future of sectarianism in the Gulf
  Fred Wehrey
• Turkey blocks access to Twitter - FT.com
  Ridiculous and desperate.
• Stopping a Civil War in Libya
  The Jedran problem.
• What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden
• Imam's arrest sparks debate in Tunisia
  Salafi imam uses freedom of speech defense - but would he support it?
• Tunisia sex workers call for brothel to reopen in resort of Sousse
  Prostitutes appeal to Ennahda MP for support.
• En Egypte, « un état d’urgence qui ne dit pas son nom »
• On rampant torture and brutality in Egypt
• Egypt, the wound in US-Saudi relations - Ahram Online
  One would think the wound is 9/11, but nevermind.
• Qahera - a superhero
  Comic about Muslim woman with sword and attitude
• Mehdi Jomâa estime "positive" la décision de l'Arabie saoudite de classer des organisations et partis comme "terroristes"
  Jomaa praises Saudi move on MB, Ghannouchi stays quiet
• The mysterious journey of the Libya oil tanker
  Love this story, good digging by Reuters.
• Don’t cancel sale of Apaches to Egypt, Israel urges U.S.
• SEALed and Delivered in Libya
  Christian Caryl - largely agree with this.
• The Threat of Civil War in Libya
  Mohamed Eljarh
• Libya pays the price for its post-Gaddafi mistakes
  Borzou Daragahi
• Five Ways You're Wrong About Libya
  (the NATO intervention, that is)
• Erdoğan's top 15 insults world leaders don't usually make
  Calls opponents perverts, atheists, terrorists, bloodsucking vampires..
• 'Seni bilen hayran, bilmeyen dusman' or, Why Erdogan Remains so Popular
  Good article in Jadaliyya on Erdogan's tactics and enduring appeal for his base
• Leaked tapes prompt calls for Turkish PM to resign
  Just catching up on this scandal. What is with leaked phone taps in the region lately?
• La région arabophone, entre changement progressiste et barbarie. Entretien avec Gilbert Achcar
• I’m an Egyptian Woman and I Like Being Sexually Harrassed
  "I wake up every morning looking forward to getting sexually harassed in Cairo."
• William McCants | Saudi Arabia Takes on the Muslim Brotherhood | Foreign Affairs
• Egypt’s old regime backs Sisi for now - Al-Monitor
   overstates his case
• Saudi’s Lonely, Costly Bid for Sunni-Shiite Equality