Links 15 November - 5 December 2017

I try to blog the links I bookmark (and that get automatically posted to the @arabist Twitter account) every couple of weeks. Those links are usually things I think are worth highlighting for one reason or another. For the last two weeks I was traveling a lot, and have decided to give up on the 40+ tabs I have open in Safari and simply dump them below. So only a few proper links:

• En défense d’El Mortada Iamrachen, victime de l’impéritie du régime - Le Desk
  Powerful editorial on Morocco Hirak activist condemned to 5 years prison.
• Motives in Egypt’s Deadliest Terrorist Attack: Religion and Revenge - The New York Times
  Great reporting by Nour Youssef.
• Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Flexes His Muscles - SPIEGEL ONLINE
  Jamal Khashoggi.
• His books are maps, painstakingly pieced together, of loss @ursulind on Palestinian author Raja Shehadeh, in @thenation magazine
• She Accused a Moroccan Pop Star of Rape. Online, She Was Vilified. - The New York Times
• The Politics behind Morocco’s Entry into ECOWAS | THISDAYLIVE
• Rebuilding a Space for Thought in Cairo
  @ursulind on the persistent Townhouse art gallery, for @alfanar

and a huge Safari tab dump:

• La maladie de Bouteflika ne cache plus celle du régime | Mediapart
• Algérie : quand gronde la rage sourde du boycott et de l'abstention | Le Point Afrique
• Culte/ Des chiites algériens de retour de Karballa malmenés par la PAF - Algérie Focus
• La situation en Algérie vue par les autorités belges — TSA
• To find the extremism behind the Egypt terror attack, start with anti-Sufi preachers | HA Hellyer | Opinion | The Guardian
• Egypt Mosque Attack Highlights Misunderstanding of Sufis - The Atlantic
• En Algérie, la corruption dépasse l'entendement (Yasmina Khadra)
• Saudi -6 Factors for MbS's Changes & 5 Against | Tarek Osman
• Was the mosque massacre in Egypt preventable? - The Washington Post
• The Problematics of Governance in the Human Rights Movement in Tunisia | Arab Reform Initiative
• How the Tariq Ramadan Scandal Derailed the #Balancetonporc Movement in France | The New Yorker
• Red Sea: Connecter and Divider - SWP
• Stage One of the UN Libya Action Plan: The Likelihood of Failure and the Need for Review | Arab Reform Initiative
• The Authoritarian Roots of Contemporary Islamist Discourse | Arab Reform Initiative
• Introducing Power 3.0: Reevaluating Authoritarianism in an Era of Globalization – Power 3.0: Understanding Modern Authoritarian Influence
• What Is Populism? - The American Interest
• Why Populist Nationalism Now? - The American Interest
• In Yemen, Mothers Of Detained Won't Stop Protests Till Their Sons Are Freed : Parallels : NPR
• CIDOB - War in Peacetime. Russia’s Strategy on NATO’s Eastern and Southern Flanks
• In Egypt, Furious Retaliation but Failing Strategy in Sinai - The New York Times
• Meet the Masters of the Underworld: | Rawi Magazine
• Le Maroc et les nouvelles routes de la soie : la troisième voie
• Egypt's War on Books - The Atlantic
• Selon Moncef Marzouki, le conseil de sécurité nationale serait un gouvernement parallèle pour contrecarrer Youssef Chahed
• UN voices alarm about spread of HIV in Egypt | News & Observer
• False Promises to Egyptian Youth - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Can Tunisia Break With Its Past? | zenith.me
• Cheap Havoc: How Cyber-Geopolitics Will Destabilize the Middle East | The German Marshall Fund of the United States
• Spain / Morocco | Borders | Vox
• Mohammed VI débranche enfin le général Benslimane - Le Desk
• Former Egypt premier says he's 'fine' and still mulling election bid
• Qatar says 2018 budget will focus on resisting economic boycott