Links 1-15 May 2017
Photographer Philippe Dudouit has some great work from the Sahel
Another fallow month...
- False Hope – Thoughts on Steven Cook’s “False Dawn” | salamamoussa
- Ghassem Soleimani, le gardien de l’Iran
Long profile. - Pipelines and Pipedreams: How the EU can support a regional gas hub in the Eastern Mediterranean | European Council on Foreign Relations
- Morocco's Salafi Ex-Jihadis: Co-optation, Engagement, and the Limits of Inclusion | Brandeis University
Mohammed Masbah - Hamas Gets an Ideological Makeover | The National Interest
Daniel Levy. - Trump should push the Saudis to scale back proselytizing—they may be more responsive than you think | Brookings Institution
Will McCants. - In the Horrorscape of Aleppo – Charles Glass
- Egypt's Failed War on Terror | Foreign Affairs
David Shenker - Abracada... broke
Rosalie Berthier on Lebanon's economy - Fragile power balance in Middle East is under threat
David Gardner on mounting tensions between Iran, Hizbullah, and Israel - Can Russia, West cooperate on Libya?
Vasily Kuznetsov - Speech Bubbles
Comics and Political Cartoons in Sisi’s Egypt - Jonathan Guyer - Plight of an Arab Intellectual – The Cairo Review of Global Affairs
Jonathan Guyer interviews Sonallah Ibrahim - Mohamed El-Erian: ‘we get signals that the system is under enormous stress’ | The Guardian
- Démission choc en Tunisie à sept mois des municipales
- Insecurity and Governance Challenges in Southern Libya - Carnegie Endowment
- Algeria, Still Avoiding Austerity - Carnegie
- Algerian Islamists, Fragmented and Irrelevant - Carnegie
- En Egypte, Sissi bataille pour le contrôle du discours religieux - Mediapart
- Trump has already started building a legacy. It’s highly negative. - The Washington Post
Francis Fukuyama. - U.N. Rights Boss Says Egypt Crackdown 'Facilitates Radicalisation'
- Dubai Introduces Its Own Font, Lauding Free Expression It Does Not Permit - NYT
- America, From Exceptionalism to Nihilism - NYT
Pankaj Mishra.