Links 14 January 2015

First link dump of the year, some dating from December 2014 – all Charlie-free, see recent posts and link roundups for that.

• Man discovers passage to Egypt's Great Pyramid — under his house
• Al Jazeera Journalists Are Not Egypt’s Enemies
  Mohamed Fadel Fahmy says he and others are victims of regional cold war
• Morocco Approves Exodus Film, After Offending Sections Cut
• How the Iraq War Financed a Beltway Real Estate Boom
  Warmongers-turned-lobbyists
• Quand le roi du Maroc boude, il tombe malade
  Ahmed Benchemsi in Le Monde
• Israel, U.S. Slam Palestinian Bid to Join International Criminal Court
  and charge Israel with war crimes in Gaza
• The Lighthouse Dims
  Nice piece on a well-worn subject: Alexandria's past cosmopolitanism and its Salafi groups
• Egyptian Court Orders Retrial for 3 Al Jazeera Journalists
  But they remain in custody
• As Gulf aid dries up, Egypt struggles - Al-Monitor
• The best Middle East political science books of 2014
  Marc Lynch's annual review.
• Special Report: Their nation in pieces, Iraqis ponder what comes next
  Devastating.
• Two women referred to ‘terror’ court for driving in Saudi Arabia
  The "moderate" ally.
• Dwindling Support for Egypt's Political Prisoners - The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
• Egyptian Involvement Sparked Libya Oil Port Battle, Expert Says
  Islamists suspected Libya's government in Tobruk was receiving reinforcements from Egypt
• Tunisie libre
  Very interesting interview with Hamadi Jabali, Nahda #2 who left party in protest this week.
• Pollution in Tunisia
  In neglected phosphate mining towns of the interior.
• Isis: the inside story | Martin Chulov
  How the group coalesced in an Iraqi prison camp
• I interrogated the top terrorist in US custody. Then the CIA came to town
  And pretended "enhanced interrogation" worked
• Inkyfada
  A lovely bilingual (Arabic-French) website on Tunisia - wonderfully designed.
• Lavrov: Moscow Stands for Improvement of US-Iran Relations
• The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built
  On the psychologists that gave "scientific" advice to the CIA
• Marcel Ophuls, Director of ‘The Sorrow and the Pity,’ Wants to Tell Israelis Some ‘Unpleasant Truths’ - NYT
• Rival central bank governors vie for control of Libya’s oil earnings - FT
  Possibly the biggest battle in Libya.
• A Legal Look into the Libyan Supreme Court Ruling
  Azza Maghur - interesting in a geeky way.