Please let me know in the comments what you'd like to see.
Back by popular demand...
You do realize soon by temptation to tinker will mean the entire look will change, the banner will be gone, etc?
I've taken out the dark patterned background. I think it looks cleaner.
Applaud or complain below.
I've decided to remove the tweet, like, g+ and what not buttons from the blog. To make things load faster, and because I came across this. (I am highly impressionable.) One day I might disable comments on the shorter posts too, when the Arabist redesign comes along (maybe this summer), and replace them with email.
Complain if you want.
A new collection of articles about Egypt that appeared in Middle East Report in the last decade or so is now out. It's edited by Chris Toensing and Jeannie Sowers, and includes a piece by me as well as other blog contributors, friends, and leading Egypt experts (Mona El-Ghobashy, Tim Mitchell, Joel Beinin, etc.). It's a great way to review late Mubarak Egypt and the January 2011 uprising, as well support the excellent MERIP.
Get your copy now.