Links 15-31 January 2016

• How to rescue Egypt - The Washington Post
  Amr Hamzawy and Michael McFaul
• Saudi Arabia and UAE rethink their relationship with Egypt
  PDF
• More Is Needed to Beat ISIS, Pentagon Officials Conclude - NYT
  Capt. Obvious just promoted at Pentagon.
• Did the Arab uprising destroy the Muslim Brotherhood? - The Washington Post
  Another good piece by Steven Brooke.
• Contrary to popular opinion, Egypt’s transition wasn’t always doomed to fail - The Washington Post
  Very much agree with Michael Hanna here.
• [TIMELINE] Morocco: Political Repression in the Era of Social Media · Global Voices
• China’s Stance on East Jerusalem | MERIP
  Interesting background on China's Arab policy.
• Vice Asked Refugees in Denmark to Show Their Most Valuable Possessions
  Shame on Denmark
• The Future of the Arab
  Ursula on the graphic novels of Riad Sattouf
• ▶ From Tahrir to London - Egyptian in Exile by Simon Hanna
  Good, sad story
• Egypt TV Personalities Face Arrest for Pranking Police
• Activist stages single-person demonstration in Tahrir Square
  More on the anniversary of Jan 25
• Baheyya: The Specter of January 25th
• The Politics of Protest in Tunisia
  Another good paper to understands the unrest.
• POMED Backgrounder: A Trip Report from Tunisia’s “Dark Regions”)
  Handy context to current turmoil
• Vladimir Putin asked Bashar al-Assad to step down - FT
  He said no.
• France plans to keep state of emergency until Isis is defeated - FT
  Who's in charge, François Mubarak?
• Ursula on the legacy of Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan feminist and scholar
• Egypt: who's afraid of January 25?
  Random raids and arrests ahead of anniversary
• Two Sisters’ Escape From Syria
  Unaccompanied and brave young women
• Egypt's MPs caught voting for each other
  Parliament is off to a great start
• Staggering civilian death toll in Iraq
  Over 18,000 killed, 36,000 wounded and 3 million displaced since January 2014
• Leila Alaoui, Photographer Wounded in Burkina Faso Siege, Dies at 33
• Algérie, des révélations sur le « coup d’Etat » de 1992 - Mondafrique
• Leila Alaoui, Photographer Wounded in Burkina Faso Siege, Dies at 33 - The New York Times
• What does an amended constitution really change about Algeria? - The Washington Post
  Not much, says John Entelis.
• Turkish academics smeared and prosecuted for signing protest letter
• Morocco: Protests of Trainee Teachers Violently Dispersed
• Iran releases Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian in prisoner swap with US | The Guardian
• Sharing the Nile | The Economist
• Al Jazeera America shutting down
  Another boom-and-bust Gulf project