✪ Violence Flares Ahead of Algeria-Egypt Soccer Match - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com | The NYT's blog The Lede has a nice post about the Algeria-Egypt, game, so I don't have to do it as I don't even like football.
✪ Daily News Egypt - Egypt Among States Attempting To Weaken Un Anti-Corruption Convention Enforcement Mechanism | Egypt and others against review mechanism for corruption convention.
✪ The Young Brotherhood in Search of a New Path | Khalil al-Anani.
✪ The Brotherhood vs. Al-Qaeda: A Moment Of Truth? | Jean-Pierre Filiu.
✪ The Saturday Profile - An Arms Dealer Returns, Now Selling an Image - Biography - NYTimes.com | Profile of arms dealer Adnan al-Khashoggi, who apparently has fallen on hard times. Still, I'd like to know why he met with Richard Perle in 2002.
✪ Blogging Imam Who Knew Fort Hood Gunman and 9/11 Hijacker Goes Silent - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com | Can't believe this guy has not been arrested prior to leaving the US.
✪ 'Going Muslim' - Forbes.com | NYU professor "goes desi" after Texas massacre. Is this just Indian (I assume the professor is originally Indian or Sri Lankan) prejudice against Muslims? I wonder if the next time an Asian shoots people at a college we'll say, "going oriental"... Shame on you, Forbes.
✪ Palestine: Salvaging Fatah | ICG's new report on Palestine. [PDF]

Automatically posted links for December 5th through December 6th:

• CAB Advised To Audit Independent Newspapers - al-Masri al-Youm English story on a decision to have government accounting office audit independent newspaper. Is seen as an attack on freedom of the press, could provide pretexts for newspapers to be shut down or financially pressured
• 25 Al-Azhar University Students Detained Wednesday Dawn - Latest crackdown on Islamist students at al-Azhar, who in the past few months have staged sit-ins to protest the exclusion of some Islamist from the university and its dorms. MB leaders I've spoken to recently said it is becoming more difficult for them t
• Le Monde.fr : RSF récompense le blogueur égyptien Kareem Amer, emprisonné pour quatre ans - Reporters Without Borders gives Karim Amer its annual prize
• Tunisia's Ben Ali promises more democracy - METimes.com - And I promise you the moon is made of solid gold
• Shatah?An Egyptian Cleric Adored By Muslims And Americans, Unheard Of In Egypt - al-Masri al-Youm profiles up-and-coming Egyptian imam in Amreeka who is Amr Khaled fan
• Islamists Today: The Autumn of Arab Islamists - Khalil al-Anani continues to see Islamists on the decline
• Changes in Guantanamo Bay SOP manual (2003-2004) - Wikileaks - Comparison in leaked 2003 and 2004 Guantanamo Bay Standard Operating Procedures has evidence of abuses

Automatically posted links for November 21st:

• مجمع البحوث الإسلامية يواÙ�Ù‚ علي نشر «الإسلام هو الحل» وكتب إخوانية لـ«البنا» و«مشهور» - Egypt Islamic council authorizes publication of Ikhwan publications - this will have the conspiracy theorists going!


• "U.S. Seeks to Prosecute Pulitzer Prize Winning A.P. Photographer" by Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) - Pentagon to put AP photog on trial on dubious charges


• خلص ! :: من نحن - Khalass! campaign in Lebanon, civil society urges politicians to resolve differences


• Beirut Is Not Tehran - Exum and McInerney on why the US should change policy in Lebanon


• Space Age Wudu - Ablution device from the future


• FT.com / World - Sharif hopes to end Saudi exile - Saudis pushing for Sharif as PM in Pakistan, against US wishes


• Islamists Today: Brotherhood Youth: A time bomb - Khalil al-Anani on the generational divide in the MB


• YouTube - Musharraf's crackdown on media - Al Jazeera report on crackdown on press, possible UAE collaboration


• Meeting Resistance: A film by Steve Connors & Molly Bingham - Movie about the Iraqi underground, has insider footage of insurgent cells