Links 26 August - 9 September 2017

• Le bureau des légendes djihadistes | Mediapart
  On the spycraft of ISIS.
• Algérie : Ahmed Ouyahia, une conception centralisée et autoritaire du pouvoir | Middle East Eye
  Abed Charef.
• Torture and National Security in al-Sisi's Egypt | HRW
  HRW's website banned in Egypt over this.
• La Tunisie expulse manu militari le prince Moulay Hicham - Le Desk
  Why would Tunisia kick out a dissident Moroccan prince?
• What’s Behind Saudi Arabia’s Turn Away From the Taliban? | The Diplomat
• En Egypte, même la jeunesse aisée rêve de quitter le pays
  In Egypt, even elite youth want to leave.
• Qatar row: Gulf hoaxers lobby UK parliament | al-bab
• Soros Slander Reveals Anti-Semitism at the Heart of the Far Right | The Nation
  These mainstream right-wing attacks against Soros are really vile.
• Senate Panel Slashes Military Aid to Egypt | US News
• Libya: Open letter - European governments are feeding the business of suffering | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
• Jadaliyya | Egypt’s Power Game: Why Cairo is Boosting its Military Power
  Nael Shama.
• Morocco: King Brushes Off Evidence of Police Abuse | HRW
  Prosecutors claim "silmya" ("peaceful") chant is code word for: attack the police
• Nouvelles révélations sur l'espionnage marocain en France - Le Desk
• Imagined Arabies - Carnegie Middle East Center
  Charles Paul Freund on Arab speculative/dystopian fiction
• The Evolution of Morocco’s Human Rights Movement | Arab Reform Initiative
• Malise Ruthven · The Saudi Trillions · LRB 7 September 2017
• Morocco’s Refusal to Listen - The New York Times
• Morocco’s Stability Is Roiled by Monthslong Protests Over Fishmonger’s Death - The New York Times
  Aida Alami reporting from Hoceima.
• Europe's "Migrant Hunters" | Foreign Affairs
• Since Trump’s Mideast visit, extrajudicial killings have spiked in Egypt - The Washington Post
• Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant - The New York Times
  Shame on New America.
• 'I Am Not Useful for My Camera if I Die': A Syrian Photographer's View - The New York Times
  Such courage.
• Backed by Italy, Libya enlists militias to stop migrants - The Washington Post
• White House 'pressuring' intelligence officials to find Iran in violation of nuclear deal | The Guardian
• Bloodshed, Liminality & The Ends Of Egypt’s Revolution | CONNECTED in CAIRO
• Middle East Critique: Vol 26, No 3
  Issue on The Ends of Revolution in the Arab Middle East
• An Unpopular Referendum - Carnegie Middle East Center
  Interview with Joost Hiltermann on Kurds