Links 1-16 June 2017
Recent posts:
Recent links:
- Trump sells Qatar $12 billion of U.S. weapons days after accusing it of funding terrorism - CBS News
- US naval warships arrive in Qatar for military exercise | Al Jazeera
- Egypt on the edge: how Europe can avoid another crisis in Egypt | European Council on Foreign Relations
- Au Maroc, le «Hirak» des manifestants de la région du Rif gagne tout le royaume | Mediapart
- Morocco’s Devolution Can Wait No Longer | Chatham House
- Hirak: qu’en disent des chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales? | Telquel.ma
- Report: Egypt's Sisi secretly met Netanyahu in Cairo | Al Jazeera
Back in April 2016. - Édouard Louis’s Novel of the French Working Class
A French "Hillbilly Elegy," on the folks who vote Front National - Crise du Golfe: Mohammed VI propose ses « bons offices » - Le Desk
- The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Arab Playboy
Adnan Khashoggi died last week. - Qatar-Gulf Crisis: Geoeconomic Implications « LobeLog
Esp. the Iranian perspective - Russia and the Qatar Crisis « LobeLog
Mark Katz - Will Qatar’s Crisis Become Turkey’s Too? « LobeLog
Giorgio Cafiero - What’s behind the Saudi blockade of Qatar? « LRB blog
Oliver Miles - Qatari capital brims with fear, uncertainty and resilience as Arab crisis intensifies
- Jérôme Tubiana · Migrant Smugglers · LRB
Good, sad piece. - TRANSLATED: “Emirati document: Qatar is in Tunisia and we are chasing it” | The Mideastwire Blog
- Les enfants, premières victimes de la guerre… de désinformation – Culture et politique arabes
On the propaganda use of child war victims - Faites l’amour (de la religion), pas la guerre : encore des récits et des manœuvres… – Culture et politique arabes
On that tasteless Ramadan music video - Historical Wounds Are Not Healing in Tunisia
- @ursulind was in Tunis recently, looking at transitional justice and history
- Fifty Years of Occupation | Middle East Research and Information Project
- Egypt’s Government Can’t Crush Independent Journalism - NYT
Lina Attalah - A Deeper Look at the Protests in Morocco | Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED)
- Tensions dans le Rif : "Le Maroc fait face à un désespoir social et économique" - France 24
Good commentary by @aboukbakrj - Blow by blow: the Gulf's extraordinary war of words over Qatar | al-bab
- Plongée dans la tête des kamikazes
- Power Balance Shifts Towards Haftar as LNA Seizes Jufra and Misratans & BDB Withdraw | Libya Analysis
- Why Qatar Is in the Naughty Corner - The New York Times
- The $1bn hostage deal that enraged Qatar’s Gulf rivals
- 5 Arab States Break Ties With Qatar, Complicating U.S. Coalition-Building - NYTimes.com
WTF?