Links 15-31 January 2015

• Egypt’s Cartoonists, After Charlie Hebdo
  Profiles + work

• Pan-Arab news channel off air hours after launch
  For hosting Bahraini dissident

• The news website that’s keeping press freedom alive in Egypt
  A nice profile of Mada Masr

• Afghan carpet weavers are putting drones on their rugs

• A Letter to Saudi Arabia's New King
  From an anonymous Saudi writer

• Smugglers use unmanned cargo ships to ferry fleeing Syrians
  Incredible

• Misrata feels economic pinch as Libyan infighting spreads | Reuters
  Good piece from Reuters

• 110 Cartoonists ask festival to reject Sodastream sponsorship
  Director says after CharlieHebdo calls 2 boycott Israeli company "unwelcome"

• Government should revoke citizenship of those ‘inciting violence’: Ministry - Daily News Egypt

• Egypt Condemns Western Outrage at Fatal Shooting of Protester - NYT
  Abundance of evidence key in Sabbagh case.

• Egypt’s Generation Lost
  The army should shrink its budget in favor of education

• Academics Are Losing the War over the Middle East to the Thomas Friedmans of the World
  Funny/sad experiment

• She Wanted To Place A Wreath Of Flowers At Tahrir Square And Was Shot Dead
  Commemorating Jan 25

• "Salmane s'inscrit dans la continuité. En ce sens, la mort de Abdallah est presque un non événement"
  Good Q&A on Saudi post-Abdallah

• The Egyptian Revolution, Four Years Later
  Thanassis Cambanis

• Hugging the Saudi floggers
  On US-Saudi relations

• Karl reMarks: The Confused Person's Guide to Understanding Yemen
  Best read on the topic so far

• Cooperation of British spies and Gaddafi’s Libya
  MI5 worried cooperation could be “discovered by lawyers or human rights organisations and the media”

• Beard of Egypt’s King Tut Hastily Glued Back on With Epoxy
  Good luck getting more artifacts back from Europe now

• Don’t believe the hype, ISIL is still on the offensive

• Hassan Hassan

• At the Shura Council Show Trial
  How Alaa Abdel Fattah and many others are being framed

• Egypt: Rash of Deaths in Custody
  HRW report

• American hunger striker Mohamed Soltan's health plummets in Egypt
  Warning: disturbing photos

• The Egyptian government is holding more than 150 children in a makeshift prison

• New leaks expose military hold over media | Mada Masr
  Sisi's propaganda machine - but who is leaking?

• Twenty million Tramadol pills destroyed in Tripoli
  Massive influx of drugs in Libya since 2011

• SAUDI ARABIA: ISLAMISTS RISING AND FALLING [PDF]
  Alterman & McCants

• Man Who Filmed Execution Is Arrested, Saudi Outlets Say
  The other beheadings.

• Unwed woman roams streets in wedding dress
  Performance art in Cairo

• En Mauritanie, prison ferme pour trois militants anti-esclavagisme

• Drawing While the Hand Trembles
  Jonathan Guyer on Arab cartoonists' reactions to CharlieHebdo

• What's Left in Libya
  Less and less every day

• A look at the writings of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi – sentenced to 1,000 lashes

• Vox got no threats for posting Charlie Hebdo cartoons, dozens for covering Islamophobia

• Ne pas laisser dire que Charlie était raciste
  A defense of Charlie Hebdo from charges of racism

• The Big Roundtable | Damage
  "When I was younger, someone took a knife to my clitoris" - crushing story.

• Le Monde reports 37 cases opened against people for "justifying terrorism," 12 for threats terrorist threats

• Comedian arrested over Facebook post on Paris gunman
  Freedom of speech has its limits

• La réaction du « monde musulman » en 25 illustrations sur Charlie
  More cartoons, from the Arab world

• This map shows every attack on French Muslims since Charlie Hebdo

• Israelis send Haaretz death threats for publishing cartoon..
  ...about journalists Israel killed in Gaza

• Netanyahu visits Paris synagogue, crowd breaks into national anthem
  Point being: We don't plan on emigrating to Israel

• World Agrees Hypocrisy Is Our Only Hope
  Our inspiring leaders at protests in Paris

• Adam Shatz on the dangers of "moral clarity"

• Middle East Goes Monty Python on ISIS
  Muslims also take risks satirizing extremists

• Mosques Attacked in France Following Charlie Hebdo Attack

• Gun attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo kills 11
  The one that published Prophet Mohamed cartoons