Links 8 - 19 June 2015
Ramadan Kareem. Get your Moroccan Harira recipe here (the secret is lots of celery btw). Photo by Shutterstock.
- How security forces keep critics quiet in 'progressive' UAE
One tactic: kidnappings - The Moral Conflict of Living and Working in Qatar
Interesting discussion of the personal pros and the ethical cons - Water In Crisis - Spotlight Middle East
Apparently desalination is not the answer - The Rhetoric of Egyptian Reaction
A new post by Baheyya - Smuggling books across the border: PalFest 2015
Leila Abdelrazaq puts the experience into drawings - 'One Thousand and One Nights won’t be any less impressive than Hollywood movies': Nicole Saba
Ahram Online on what may be the Ramadan serial of the year - Why Obama’s Plan to Send Advisers to Iraq Will Fail - The New York Times
Compare to what Iran's "advisers" do in Iraq... - Clans du pouvoir : les masques sont tombés
Algerian Kremlinology - the comments are out there. - U.S. Embracing a New Approach on Battling ISIS in Iraq - NYT
- Israeli exonerates itself over killing of Gaza boys on beach
- A Room Of Their Own: Makeshift Schools Help Syrian Students
- Egyptian Muslim Brothers launch “fierce” attack on Tunisia’s Ennadha, Ghannouchi
- The Guardian view on the flogging of Raif Badawi: Saudi Arabia is in the dock | The Guardian
- Egypt says terror attack foiled at temple in tourist city of Luxor | The Guardian
- Five takeaways from the Turkish election
- One Egyptian novelist takes another to task for accepting $60,000 Qatari literary prize
- Mysterious Disappearances of Egyptian Youth Continues
Egypt more and more resembles Pinochet's Chile - On being transgender in Egypt
- How Teaching in English Divides the Arab World - Ursula on a growing trend at universities in the middle east