Links 14-30 June 2014

• Saudi king sacks deputy defence minister - royal court | Reuters
• More signs of al-Saud family feuds
• Cairobserver — Egypt's cities: governed by spectacle
• Egypt hosts launch of new Qatari opposition group | Middle East Eye
• Government decides to legalise firearms | Libya Herald
  I'm sure all the militias will care.
• Kurds’ deputy PM Talabani calls for decentralised Iraq
• Egypt Moves to Restrict Ramadan Sermons | TIME
  More religious control.
• Revisionist powers are driving the world’s crises - FT
  Mead vs. Ikenberry
• On the Misconception of ‘Security Before Democracy’
  Critical piece on Sisi regime by activist Mustafa al-­Naggar (PDF)
• Release of Mubarak sons ordered as inquiry continues in profiteering case
• Armed Forces say miracle HCV cure needs 6 months of further testing
  It lives!
• This Is What It’s Like To Be a Journalist in an Egyptian Prison
  The experience of Mohamed Badr, a Jazeera cameraman.
• The Jihad Next Door
  Interesting article highlights the Assad regime's release of hundreds of jihadis in 2011
• Stephen W. Smith on Chad
  A rare look at the country.
• Libyan human rights activist shot dead
  Lawyer Salwa Bugaighis assassinated in Benghazi
• Tahrir Square sexual assaults trial begins
• Kamel Daoud double Camus
  "The Stranger" rewritten from victim's perspective
• Beware Libya’s ‘Fair Dictator’ - NYT
  Pointed rebuke to US ambiguity on Haftar.
• The Military Crowds Out Civilian Business in Egypt - Carnegie
• Sting operation reveals flawed science behind the 'Complete Cure Device'
  Meanwhile army claims cure for Hep C/Aids will be available on June 30
• Infographic: Explaining Libya’s election - Al Jazeera English
  Useful.
• The Infiltrator
  A documentary about those mysterious "thugs" in Egypt
• The brutality of Egypt’s regime - FT.com
  Editorial says "tough approach" needed towards Sisi
• Dammit, It Is NOT Unravelling: An Historian’s Rebuke to Misrepresentations of Sykes-Picot
• Wanted: Egyptian Police on the Hunt for Sophisticated Surveillance Tool
  Interior has issued tender for system to conduct "social networking security hazard monitoring"
• Egypt’s secret prison: ‘disappeared’ face torture in Azouli military jail
  Where they are "coached" into giving terrorism confessions
• The Native Informant: A Profile of Fouad Ajami
  Adam Shatz's classic 2003 portrait of the late scholar and supporter of US imperial interventions
• Yara Sallam in jail, and the moral bankruptcy of the United States
  After a peaceful protest was attacked on June 21
• How Maliki Ruined Iraq
  Zaid Al Ali blames political elite's corruption and hunger for power
• Tony Blair eyes Abu Dhabi office as he looks to expand Middle East role - FT
  "There is chemistry between him and Mohammed bin Zayed.”
• Weeks of killing
  Important report, full of testimonies, by Egyptian NGO on the violence following Morsi's ouster.
• Free Alaa Abdel Fattah
  @ursulind on the crackdown on Egyptian activists
• Jihadi Recruitment in Riyadh Revives Saudi Arabia's Greatest Fear - Bloomberg
• Arab states urge reconciliation, blame sectarian policies
  Hahahahaha.
• On Recent Events in Mosul and Other Cities in Iraq
  A statement from the Federation of Workers' Councils and Unions in Iraq
• Why iraqis are celebrating islamic extremists’ takeover of their city
  Interesting report on ISIS' reception (and directives to locals) in Mosul
• Egyptian actress says a visit from Sisi ‘worth sex attack’
  Just when you think people can sink no lower
• Letters from prison
  Testimonies from Egypt's jails over the last year, collected by the Nadim Center