Links 14-28 February 2017

Last week we published this translation on Saudi Arabia's evolving policy towards Iraq and Iran, relevant in light of today's visit by Saudi FM Adel Jubeir to Baghdad - the first in 25 years by a Saudi FM.

And the links:

• Morocco and the African Union: Back into the Fold - Carnegie
  Anouar Boukhars.
• Egypt's parliament expels lawmaker critical of human rights record | Reuters
  Outspoken Anwar Sadat out - Sisi doesn't want even token opposition.
• Egypt’s Economy Is in Crisis. So Why Is the Government Spending Millions on a Fancy New Space Agency?
• Tunisia Fears the Return of Thousands of Young Jihadists
• It’s ISIS, not ISIL, the Pentagon informs staff in new memo - The Washington Post
• Beware the Blob: How Not to Oppose Donald Trump - POLITICO Magazine
  Rob Malley and Marc Lynch.
• Tom Stevenson · Flip-Flops and Kalashnikovs: In Libya · LRB 2 March 2017
• I Am a Member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Not a Terrorist - The New York Times
• Gehad Haddad
• Egypt's Forgotten Prisoners
• Why Moscow now sees value in Syrian local councils
• For a Trump adviser, an odyssey from the fringes of Washington to the center of power - The Washington Post
  On Sebastian Gorka.
• Can E.U. Shift Migrant Crisis to the Source? In Libya, the Odds Are Long - NYT