Links October 20-November 16 2015

Long overdue links..

• French researchers finds potential ISIS sympathizers from middle-class, atheist families, 15-21, have suffered depression
• How to Politicize a Tragedy
  On the Paris attacks
• What the ruins of Kobane tell us about the destruction of Syria
  Apocalyptic
• Lebanon Can Survive Bombings but Not Its Own Failing State
  The real threat to stability in Lebanon, by Thanassis Cambanis 
• Why ISIS would attack Paris, according to an expert
• Egypt’s Nile River Delta Is Sinking Into the Sea. Poor Egypt never catches a break.
• Loubna Abidar : « Pourquoi j’ai décidé de quitter le Maroc »
• A statement by Hossam Bahgat on his military detention & interrogation
• Much Loved review – tackles sexual hypocrisy in Morocco with a battering ram
• How One Bomb Affects Egypt’s Economy
• Archaeologists To Ben Carson: Ancient Egyptians Wrote Down Why The Pyramids Were Built - Forbes
• Studying Gulf Countries, their Influence and Divides Latest column in Al Fanar by @ursulind
• Interior Ministry blames Brotherhood for Alexandria floods
• WP: Russian and Egyptian officials not to be trusted on airline crash Both are "less adept at fighting terrorism than they are at lying"
• President Sisi and David Cameron face the press
  But not really. Insane press non-event during the recent visit.
• Why is Russia bombing my town?
  From Kafranbel, an epicenter of the Syrian revolution
• Detained student's family requests his temporary release to attend father’s funeral
  One of so many jailed in Egypt #letaymanburyhisfather
• lamamra-les-propos-du-roi-du-maroc-resonnent-comme-un-pari-sur-le-pire-08-11-2015-307146_109.php
• UAE told UK: crack down on Muslim Brotherhood or lose arms deals | The Guardian
• UN Libya envoy accepts £1,000-a-day job from backer of one side in civil war
  Leon to head academy for diplomats in the UAE
• The Fate of a Joke in Lebanon
  Comic magazine Samandal convicted of denigrating religion
• Moving testimony from Lesvos, Greece, by Peter Wieben
• J. K. Rowling and the Prisoners of Israel
  Omar Robert Hamilton eloquently defends the cultural boycott of Israel
• Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Beirut’s Sursock Museum and Aïshti Foundation
• Why were no Syrians invited to the peace talks in Vienna?
  Hannah Allam explains
• Busted: The Trial of Ahmed Naje
  Egyptian novelist on trial for offending public morals
• A reporter remembers Ahmad Chalabi, the man who never ruled Iraq | McClatchy DC
  Great piece by Hanna Allam
• Ahmad Chalabi, Iraqi Politician Who Pushed for U.S. Invasion, Dies at 71 - NYT
• Qatar’s New Slavery Museum
  Matt Hall on an unexpected exhibit
• “Islamic State” executes more than 200 of its own militants tried to defect, a defected leading figure said | Syrian Observatory For Human Rights
• The Big Bush Question by Elizabeth Drew | The New York Review of Books
• The End of the Abbas Era « LRB blog
  Nathan Thrall
• Nobel Nota Bene | On Tawakkul Kamran and the Tunisian Quartet MERIP
• Downgrading U.S.-Egyptian Relations | Foreign Affairs
  Michael Hanna
• From the Potomac to the Euphrates » Interest and Intrigue in Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections
• The Difference between Voting and Democracy: Egypt’s Parliamentary Race
  Good analysis by Timothy E. Kaldas