Automatically posted links for January 25th through January 26th:

• The Arab - New London-based magazine on MENA


• MidEast Brief::Egypt - Newish website links to articles on region


• Egypt says will keep border open and help Gazans restock - Unable to stop flow of people, Egypt maintains borders open


• Abbas: No talks with Hamas despite Gaza border chaos - Abu Mazen turns down Cairo talks with Hamas


• PALESTINIANS CREATE NEW BREACHES DESPITE EGYPTIAN ATTEMPTS TO SEAL THE BORDER - Article mentions Egyptian tanks on their way to border


• Gaza source: Hamas planned border wall blast for months - Amira Hass


• Gaza into Egypt Middle East Strategy at Harvard - M. Kramer revives "give Gaza a chunk of Egypt" idea, good response by S. Cook


• The People in Gaza Challenge Sham Peace Process - Juan Cole's Informed Comment hosts Joel Beinin op-ed


• ANALYSIS: Gaza border breach shows Israel that Hamas is in charge - Haaretz analysis


• ?????????? ?????: ????: ???? ?? ???? ??? ??????? ????? ??? - Mahdi Akef denied that Khaled Meshaal asked him to stage Gaza siege demos


• Furlough Day for Gazans (Prospects for Peace) - Daniel Levy


• Appeal for the defense of individual freedoms - Moroccan liberals call for right to individual freedoms after Islamist gay witch-hunt


• Egypt's Gaza policy / A pan-Arab consensus? - Haaretz analyzes Egypt's tough position re: Gaza and Hamas

Automatically posted links for January 20th through January 21st:

• al-Qaida Solicits Questions Online - Questions include "why haven't you opened a new front in Egypt" and more depressing idiocy


• Measuring liberty | When freedom stumbles | Economist.com - Look at the charts: in 1982 Egypt was "partly free," now it is "not free"


• Economics focus | Selling sex | Economist.com - Interesting article on the economics of prostitution


• HAMAS ASKS EGYPT TO REOPEN RAFAH BORDER - Hamas puts Cairo on the spot


• Translating the Party of God into English - Quilty reviews Hizbullah in translation


• Review: Loaded Dice by Neill Lochery - Debunking of idea that UK Foreign Office is pro-Arab or anti-Israel


• The rise and decline of London as a pan-Arab media hub - Media critic Najm Jarrah


• An Israeli Law for Censorship of Web Comments - Elijah points to a bill in the Knesset that would enable libel laws for web comments


• Why does Johnny come marching homeless? - How Iraq veterans with psychological problems end up homeless


• Those troublesome engineers « Kafr al-Hanadwa - SP has a good post on why engineers are over-represented in Islamist groups