Links 1-17 September 2016

• The international school of Egypt’s military
  The militarisation of late Mubarak neoliberalism.
• Libya intervention destroyed great power unity in rush to regime change | Middle East Eye
• Thursday, September 8, 20The Virtues of Sham: The Place of Syria in the Muslim Sacral Imagination | SyriaComment
• Obama & Palestine: The Last Chance by Nathan Thrall | NYR Daily
  Nathan Thrall.
• Is the United States Giving Up on Supporting Democracy Abroad? | Foreign Policy
  Tom Carrothers
• Turkish intelligence unveils secret codes used before coup attempt -Hurriyet
• The Armed Forces and business: Economic expansion in the last 12 months | Mada Masr
• Migrants lured by sex into Egypt's backstreet kidney trade, says report | Reuters
  Horrible.
• Did al Qaeda exchange former Pakistani army chief’s son for Zawahiri’s daughters?
• Revealing an Unknown Cairo by Claire Messud | The New York Review of Books
  Review of Yasmine El Rashidi's novel.
• Distract Deceive Destroy: Putin at War in Syria
  Atlantic Council report
• The Decay of the Syrian Regime is Much Worse Than You Think
  War on the Rocks has, well, rocked on Syria from many different perspectives recently.