Automatically posted links for November 30th through December 2nd:

• AEI - The problem of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
• Egypt frees jailed Shiite rights activists: lawyers - Dereini released
• Self-styled morality police now commonplace in Egypt - This story might slightly exagerate but it is definitely becoming more common - just try to take the metro if you're female. My question is whether this is personal initiative or organized dawa.
• Training your first responders - MountainRunner - I feel bad for laughing at this (thanks, x)
• Arab FMs see Livni as ?Dracula's younger sister? - "Why doesn't anyone want to shake my hand?" she asked. "Why doesn't anyone want to be seen speaking to me?"
• "Roger Cohen: Viva Mubarak, Fuera Chavez!" by Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine) - Ken Silverstein points out Roger Cohen's double standards -- but it's not just about strategic interests, Ken. It's also and has long been about racism against non-white, (mostly) non-Christian people.
• Blogosphère marocaine : liens utiles - Larbi's list of useful links to the Moroccan blogosphere

Automatically posted links for November 27-28th:

• Critical writer jailed in Tunisia - On Monday, police in Sfax, Tunisia's second largest city, detained Slim Boukhdhir, a well-known blogger and contributor to the London-based Al-Quds Al Arabi.
• 'Aqoul: Hirsi Ali: Ideological Chameleon - Holy CRAP! Hirsi Ali's rightward shift
• tabsir.net » Al Qaeda?s generational split - Yemeni tactics for splitting jihadist groups
• Talking Points | National Security Network - Website of reality-based security types
• Le Monde.fr : Une vidéo-amateur contredit la version de la police sur l'accident de Villiers-le-Bel - Amateur video indicates initial shock of police car against motorbike not very violent, car was damaged with metal bars afterwards and police is lying about it
• WHO'S WHO OF PREZ CAMPAIGN SECURITY ADVISERS - New list of security / FP advisors to US presidential candidates, surprisingly does not include the more well-known rabid neocons in Rudy's list
• Hillary Clinton's advisers too gung-ho on Iraq war, critics say - Is Hillary Clinton the hawk masquerading as the dove?
• 'Not very good' Saddam spy gets 4 years - Yahoo! News - More examples of the terrible threat to the US that Saddam represented. Hmm, let me think, what other Middle Eastern country successfully infiltrated spies in critical national security institutions?
• Police say Paris rioters are armed as clashes escalate - Officials in Paris last night warned that rioters in the suburb of Villiers-le-Bel were armed with hunting rifles and air rifles as clashes with police continued to escalate.
• Boom fuels new Saudi spending spree | Business | The Guardian - Annual revenues of $165bn are funding six new cities to create jobs - but can it last?
• Cairo International Film Festival - Home Page - Schedules, events, etc. (apparently Morocco is focus of festival)
• In Annapolis, Conflict by Other Means by Robert Blecher and Mouin Rabbani - "As for the Annapolis meeting itself, it is being greeted with indifference, with few believing it will lead to either meaningful change in their daily lives or substantive progress toward the end of an Israeli occupation now in its fifth decade."

Automatically posted links for November 25th:

• Angry Arab on Eric's Hobsbawm's memoirs - "I have no emotional obligation to the practices of an ancestral religion and even less to the small, militarist, culturally disappointing and politically aggressive nation-state which asks for my solidarity on racial grounds."


• "If Annapolis fails, smash me," souvenir mug says - Brillant! I want one!


• King Hussein of Jordan | From the desert he rose | Economist.com - Review of Avi Schlaim's biography of King Hussein. Sounds rather too positive, but he was certainly an interesting man


• The absurd world of Martin Amis | Comment | The Observer - Funnyman Chris Morris slams into Amis, Hitchens


• The Political Compass - Pretty decent test of political values...

Automatically posted links for November 23rd:

• Arab Countries to Send Senior Delegations to Peace Talks - Saudi reluctantly coming along, other Arab states breathe sifh of relief


• Hands Off Iran - "I will not pay my income tax if we go to war with Iran."


• U.S. Navy steps up fuel deliveries to Gulf forces | Reuters - Increased supply could mean exercises to warn Iran, or worse


• «La vie sexuelle d’un islamiste à Paris» de Leila Marouane | Babelmed -


• AFP: Egypt Copt jailed 45 years after father's conversion - Utterly ridiculous


• ANALYSIS: PA should have set the bar higher at the outset - Haaretz - Even an Israeli newspaper is aghast at the Palestinians "defeatist attitude" pre-Annapolis


• Al-Qaeda in Algeria | Babelmed - Interview with Hamida Layachi, expert on GSPC

Automatically posted links for November 22nd:

• Le Monde.fr : Le patriarche maronite libanais, Nasrallah Sfeir, politique malgré lui - What a ridiculous headline... poor Sfeir, pushed into politics!


• Women in Muslim Brotherhood ..Towards More Political Participation - MB article on growing role for women in political activism


• Report: Syria has decided not to attend Annapolis peace conference - Syria snubs Condi's party


• مش هنبطل: I will still stand up for him - Hudaiby answers Sandmonkey allegation


• "‘Fall of the House of Bush:’ Six Questions for Craig Unger" by Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) - Unger on how neocons met Bush, etc.