Links March 21-April 3 2015
- Yemen: The Houthi Enigma
- Salafists and Sectarianism: Twitter and Communal Conflict in the Middle East
- ‘ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror,’ and More
Steve Negus reviews this very good new book on ISIS, and others - Wadha et Ibrahim Abdhalla: affreux, sales et marrants
Refreshingly off-beat portrait of Iraqi refugees - TSA’s Secret Behavior Checklist to Spot Terrorists
Includes being nervous, being late, being arrogant, whistling, yawning, staring, gazing down... - Gaza family 'tricked' into selling Banksy painting for $175
For shame. - Palestine ICC entry to shake up peace process
- Obama Removes Weapons Freeze Against Egypt
- Moroccan free press activist accused of adultery, given 10 month jail sentence
Another dissident framed and smeared - Yemen and Iran: What's really going on?
Brian Whitaker tries to assess how serious alleged Iranian involvement is - Witnesses, Who Say Police Killed Activist, Are to Be Charged in Egypt
More judicial bullying - Diplomatie, retenue militaire et patience sont les seuls remèdes pour la Libye
Jean Marie Guéhenno and Issandr El Amrani op-ed in Le Monde. - US Couple Spends Millions To Save Migrants In The Mediterranean
Have spent $8 million and helped 3,000 so far - An Interior Ministry runs through it
Blogger Sarah Carr takes a Nile taxi - Is it a coincidence that one of the world's most feminist countries is having a fight with one of its most misogynist ones?
- Reading al-Koni in English — Elliott Colla
The great Libyan writer is a Booker finalist this year - A Policy Puzzle of U.S. Goals and Alliances in the Middle East
- Majority of Egyptians Believe Muslim Brotherhood Should Be Allowed Participation in Politics
More accurately, believe everyone should be allowed. - Yemen becomes new front in the war between Saudi Arabia and Iran
- Road to Extremism for Tunisian Museum Gunmen Went Through Libya
Investigative report in the WSJ - Islam’s Improbable Reformer
Portrait of Sisi by Bret Stephens, improbable journalist - I Am Norman Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein does Reddit's Ask Me Anything. - Egypt enters Guinness Book of Records with 4-ton ful platter