Links 5 March - 10 May 2016

From the archives (June 2012, Cairo): "Down with the next president"

We have let the blog lie fallow a little for the past month or two. Maalesh, more to come soon.

• Hijabonita
  I just like the name of this hijab fashion tumblr.
• The Only Way to Solve Iraq’s Political Crisis - The New York Times
  Zaid al-Ali
• In the Eye of the Storm: Algeria’s South and its Sahelian Borders - Carnegie
  Anouar Boukhars
• Sinai insurgency: An enduring risk - Al Jazeera English
  Omar Ashour
• On the avant-guarde Moroccan magazine Souffles
  Banned 50 years ago as a threat to the state
• Giulio, the islands and national security | Mada Masr
  Great piece by Khaled Fahmy.
• Egypt's Military Regime Grows More Brutal Every Day: Copts Likely To Find Persecution, Not Protection, Ahead - Forbes
• Egypt Extends Campaign Against Dissent to Turtle Bay | Foreign Policy
• Egypt's Hollowed-Out Society - The New York Times
  Gamal Eid
• Sanders slams Clinton for ignoring Palestinians' needs and thinking Netanyahu is 'right all the time'
• Social sciences, most likely to expose society's blind spots, lacking at Arab universities
• This Saudi dance is all the rage in Arab world, but it could get you arrested
  More war on youth
• Italian newspaper tribute to Regeni and all of Egypt's disappeared
• Israeli backing for PEN literary festival rejected in angry letter by authors
• The speech Bernie Sanders planned to give to AIPAC
• La Guerre Froide Des “Islamologues”
  Kepel v. Roy.
• The Hypnotic Clamor of Morocco by Adam Shatz | The New York Review of Books
  Paul Bowles' ethnomusical collection issued
• Jordan: How Close to Danger? by Joost Hiltermann | The New York Review of Books
• Online Media Expands, Digital Divide Persists
  On interesting media surveys from Northwestern Qatar
• Egypt: Unprecedented crackdown on NGOs
• Tunisian Artist eL Seed Paints Manshiyat Naser With Stunning Graffiti
• This Is Why Libya Finally Cares About Migrant Smuggling - BuzzFeed News
• Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Tamer El-Said’s In the Last Days of the City
  Now I'd really like to see this
• Anatomy of an election | Mada Masr
  Another epic Hossam Bahgat article on the manufacture of the "For the love of Egypt" party list.
• Moroccans protest over U.N. Ban Ki-moon's West Sahara position
• Where’s My Mercedes? Egypt’s Financial Crisis Hits the Rich - The New York Times
  Declan Walsh's best piece since he's arrived in Cairo.
• Court’s Reasoning in #AhmedNaji’s Prison Sentence
  Read it and weep
• Adam Shatz on "The Daoud Affair"
  The Algerian writer's commentaries on the the Arab world's "sexual misery"
• Competing goals make Saudi oil policy hard to predict — FT
• Egypt Running on Empty
  Great piece by Josh Stacher in MERIP
• 5 Badass Photos From Syria
  Protests in cities that have been bombed and besieged
• Berbers in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains
  Some beautiful images
• Restoring the world’s oldest library
  In Fez
• No Excuse for Domestic Violence in Morocco | Human Rights Watch