Trying to get into the habit of posting these links again, so clearing up the backlog…

• Egypt jails prominent political figure for a year over 'false news' - Reuters
  About Zyad Elelaimy.

• While GERD’s Reservoir Remains Empty, Tensions Rise in Dam Dispute – The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy

• From Harvard Medical Student to Detained Egyptian Activist | The Crimson
  From Harvard Medical Student to Detained Egyptian Activist | The Crimson

• Lebanon’s GDP declines to $44 billion from $55 billion | Daily Star

• Saudi Arabia escalates oil price war with plan to maximise supply | Financial Times
  Riyadh boosting supply beyond its production capacity (using reserves) in game of chicken.

• Meet Omar Radi, the Moroccan Journalist Who Was Jailed for a Single Tweet & Faces Trial on March 5 | Democracy Now!

• No Damascus like home | Synaps

• Hezbollah’s Suicidal Red Line - Carnegie

• Avoiding a Populist Surge in Tunisia | Crisis Group

• U.S. “Maximum Pressure” on Iran Hurts the Women It Claims to Help | Crisis Group

• The Arabs’ Moment - Carnegie
  Marwan Muasher

• Criminalizing Palestinian Resistance: The EU’s Additional Condition on Aid to Palestine - Al-Shabaka

• Skateboarding won't 'save' Afghan girls | Al Jazeera
  You don't say.

• In capital of Arab America, Bernie Sanders pledges to fight discrimination | Middle East Eye

• Nile Conflict: Compensation Rather Than Mediation - SWP

• How Should Lebanon Navigate the Crisis? | LCPS
  How Should Lebanon Navigate the Crisis? | LCPS

• Israel election results: Benjamin Netanyahu, liberator of the 'third Israel' - Haaretz

• Fear and loathing of Netanyahu breaking down the wall separating Israeli Jews and Arabs - Haaretz

• The End of Egyptian Cotton | The New Yorker

• Counterfeit Egyptian money, stamps and poisoned wells: When young Israel stirred the water of the Nile - Middle East News - Haaretz.com

• Saudis Plan Big Oil Output Hike, Beginning All-Out Price War - Bloomberg

• Shale Oil, OPEC+ Fight: Putin, MBS and U.S. Fracking Industry - Bloomberg

• Screwball Comics and Foolish Questions | by Art Spiegelman | The New York Review of Books
  Reading Art Spiegelmann about Rube Goldberg is worth an annual NYRB subscription alone

• Opinion | The Failure of Europe’s Feeble Muscle Flexing - The New York Times
  Anna Sauerbrey on Instex

• OTF | The Silencing Effect of Digital Transnational Repression
  How Egypt, Syria and Iran intimidate exiled activists

• Little Magazines | Sowt
  The latest episode of BULAQ looks at the joyful, hardscrabble adventure of independent publishing in the region

• I was meant to talk about Palestinian kids at the UN. Israel forced me out - +972
  Brad Parker of Defence for Children International.

• A shameful response to the tragedy in Idlib | FT
  The FT's editorial board calls for Putin to be confronted.

• A Police State With an Islamist Twist: Inside Hifter’s Libya | NYT
  David Kirkpatrick in Benghazi.

• « Sur le conflit israélo-palestinien, la voix de la France s’est éteinte » | Le Monde
  Yves Aubin de La Messuzière

• Trump’s deal gives Israel a superpower endorsement of apartheid | 972
  Omar H. Rahman.

• Driss Chraïbi & the Novel Morocco Had to Ban | NYR Daily
  Adam Shatz.

• POMEPS Studies 33: The Politics of Rentier States in the Gulf
  Edited volume.

• Iraqi Protesters Thwarted by Trump’s Iran Policy | MERIP
  Yousef Baker.

• The Rise and the Future of Militias in the MENA Region | ISPI
  A new volume of collected essays.

• In Search of Legitimacy | Carnegie
  Dalia Ghanem and Ryad Banaidji on Algeria's Tebboune.

• A Storm of Imperfection | Carnegie
  Maha Yahia on the need for a new social contract in Lebanon.

• The irresistible resiliency of Iraq’s protesters | Brookings
  Ranj Alaaldin.

• The dark side of consensus in Tunisia: Lessons from 2015-2019 | Brookings
  Sharan Grewal and Shadi Hamid.

• Will Jordan Pay a Price? | Carnegie
  In an interview, Marwan Muasher outlines what scares Amman in the Trump peace plan for Palestinians and Israelis.

• The Not So Simple Past
  The latest episode of @bulaqbooks tackles Moroccan writer Driss Chraibi's classic tale of a very angry young man: https://www.sowt.com/en/Bulaq

• The Elephant Is The Room | صوت
  A new episode of @bulaqbooks podcast, recorded in Cairo

• U.S. Killing of Qasem Soleimani: Frequently Asked Questions | CRS
  Useful PDF primer.

• The Lebanese Street Asks: ‘Which Is Stronger, Sect or Hunger?’
  Ursula Lindsey in the @NYRbooks, on the emergence of a non-sectarian movement and the risks of an economic collapse in Lebanon

Tab dump.

• Moral Leadership and the Lebanese Military | Carnegie

• Reforming Tunisia’s military courts | Brookings

• Iraqi Prime Minister Resigns in Deepening Political Crisis | NYT

• Sudanese protesters demand justice for killed and missing. |Middle East Eye

• Saudi Aramco flotation to rely on local money. | FT
  "Saudi Aramco’s stock market flotation will rely almost exclusively on local money"

• What the ‘Danish Lawrence’ Learned in Libya | NYR Daily
  Fred Wehrey.

• A few things you might like to know about us | Mada Masr

• Lina Attalah: Here is the backstory to the piece that contributed to getting us into trouble

• For J Street, holding Israel accountable is still a step too far | +972 Magazine

• Egypt's farmers tackle climate change with comedy and community | Reuters

• The Military in the Middle | Carnegie
  Aram Nerguizian: In a period of unpredictable change, Lebanon’s armed forces are indispensable to internal stability.

• The Betrayal of the Kurds | New York Review of Books
  Peter Galbraith.

• Human Rights and the Global Protests: Addressing Systems as well as Symptoms | Center for Economic and Social Rights
  Ignacio Saiz urges human rights activists to pay more attention to economics

• Le Moyen-Orient de plus en plus dangereux pour les chercheurs européens | Le Monde
  Jean-Pierre Filiu calls for the suspension of academic cooperation in Iran in reaction to two French academics detained since June

• En Algérie, le Hirak s'empare de la nuit | LibérationIn response to growing repression, Algerian protestors go out at night

• “Silenced Net: The Chilling Effect among Palestinian Youth in Social Media” | 7amleh

• Protests in Lebanon: A View From Iran | LobeLog
  Talal Mohammad

• Interview with Bernard Haykel | Vital Interests
  Haykel blames US withdrawal for regional instability

• Responding to “Funding” Accusations: Daraj does not Hide its Partners’ Identity | Daraj
  Daraj responds to accusations on foreign funding

• No, Corruption Is Not the Root of the Arab World’s Problems | Bloombergg Opinion
  Amr Adly: The real sin of ruling elites is not the capture of state resources, but failing to create enough.

• The Ravages of Inequality | Carnegie
  Lydia Assouad: The Lebanese are united in revolt, but their political system is not made to calm their rage.

• 10 Things to Know about Iran’s Protests | United for Iran

• Egypt’s Military Undermines Its Economic Revival | Bloomberg Opinion
  Timothy Kaldas: An expanding network of enterprises owned by the armed forces blocks much-needed reforms.

• Leaked Iran Cables: Key Findings From Secret Documents | NYT
  Leaked spy cables reveal how Iran came to dominate the political and military spheres in Iraq.

• President's eldest son, Mahmoud al-Sisi, sidelined from powerful intelligence position to diplomatic mission in Russia | | Mada Masr

• My Life as a Child Chef | The New Yorker
  I would pay good money to watch “Adam Cooks” - lovely story by @adamshatz.

• En Algérie, adoption d’un projet de loi controversé sur les hydrocarbures | Le Monde
  And passes new hydrocarbon law

• L'Algérie facilite les investissements étrangers, va emprunter à l'extérieur | Le Figaro
  Algeria sends 51/49 law, allows foreign borrowing, sacks Sonatrack head

• Egyptian Woman Fights Unequal Islamic Inheritance Laws | NYT
  Egyptian Woman Fights Unequal Islamic Inheritance Laws | NYT

• US warns Egypt of sanctions over Russian warplane purchase | Bloomberg
  US warns Egypt of sanctions over Russian warplane purchase | Bloomberg

• Why Do We Tolerate Saudi Money in Tech? | NYT
  True, but why do we tolerate Israeli money and companies too?

• WhatsApp Says Israeli Firm Used Its App in Spy Program | NYT
  Several MENA countries targeted

• Saudi Arabia should listen to critics of its reform programme | The Economist
  Saudi Arabia should listen to critics of its reform programme | The Economist

• Tunisia parliament elects Ennahdha's Rachid Ghannouchi as speaker | Al Jazeera
  Rival Heart of Tunisia supports Ghannouchi's election and appears likely to join coalition government with Ennahdha.

• Thomas Meaney reviews ‘The Scramble for Europe’ by Stephen Smith · LRB

• Egyptian government documents: Officials in Cairo tried to cover up arms deal with North Korea | Washington Post
  Probably a senior military official's arms trade deal (Libya?)

• Another Birthday Behind Bars: The UAE’s Unjust Imprisonment of Ahmed Mansoor – POMED
  Joe Stork

• The spectre of Syria silenced Arab protest. But now it’s finding its voice | Guardian
  Nesrine Malik

• Egypt to press for outside mediator in Ethiopia dam dispute - Reuters
  Sisi wanted the US to play this role over the last year. Now he will be pressing this... while in Russia

• Why Washington Cannot Abandon Military Intervention | Foreign Affairs
  Richard Fontaine

• Russian cyberattack unit ‘masqueraded’ as Iranian hackers, UK says | Financial Times
  This is fascinating

• Why a One-State Solution is the Only Solution | Foreign Affairs
  Youssef Munayer

• Mohamed Ali: Face-to-face with Egypt's most-wanted man | MEE
  Middle East Eye scores the first interview with the Egyptian YouTube star

• War in Yemen, made in Europe | Arms Trade Watch
  The Yemen dossier

• Libya: Rich in Oil, Leaking Fuel | Chatham House
  Tim Eaton on the oil and fuel scams in Libya

• We Are Conquerors | LRB
  Adam Shatz reviews Tom Segev's biography of David Ben-Gurion

• In Egypt, Institutional Insanity is the New Normal | HRW

• Egypt’s dictatorship is sitting on a powder keg | Washington Post
  Ezzedine C. Fishere

• Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors | Washington Post
  Steven Mufson

• Kurds’ Sense of Betrayal Compounded by Empowerment of Unsavory Rivals | NYT
  Ben Hubbard and David Kirkpatrick with yet more evidence that all of this was long-planned and not Trump's whimsy

• Saudi Arabia successfully evacuates its citizens from Lebanon

• Lebanon reforms 'must start from politicians' bank accounts' | Al Jazeera
  Timour Azhari on Lebanon's (and the Lebanese) debt problem

• Consider the Hedgehog | LRB
  Great essay by Katherine Rundell

• Short Cuts | LRB
  David Bromwich on Trump, Syria and impeachment

• Understanding Russia and the UAE’s Special Partnership | LobeLog
  Giorgio Cafiero

• How US foreign policy elites spread lawlessness around the world | Nonzero

• Assad Is Now Syria’s Best-Case Scenario | Foreign Policy
  Stephen Walt, rather weirdly, posits this as if there is a choice now

• Ongoing Post on Protests in Beirut/Lebanon (Jadaliyya Co-Editors in Beirut)
  Details of events of 18 October

• Qatar approves minimum wage law and will scrap all worker exit permits | MEE

• Jordanians anxious for return of lands leased to Israel | MEE

• Memo: Americans Want a Progressive Overhaul of American Foreign Policy | Data for Progress

• Jusqu’où laisserons-nous passer la haine des musulmans? | Mediapart
  Petition urging Macron to take a stance against widespread islamophobia in French media and politics

• Tunisia’s new president: how memes and viral videos led to a “Robocop” revolution | 1843
  Layli Foroudi

• Super Kais Saied
  This is brilliant on Tunisia's new president

Resuming the long-interrupted link dumps…

• A Reporter From Hell | Tablet
  Quite a piece by Armin Rosen on Syria and Nir Rosen - it over-complicates things, but a good read.

• The Emirati Lobby: How the UAE Wins in Washington | Center for International Policy
  A new report by Ben Freeman

• Pullback Leaves Green Berets Feeling ‘Ashamed,’ and Kurdish Allies Describing ‘Betrayal’ | NYT
  To be fair, US betrayal of Kurds came in increments, not just now, and clearly coming

• Has UAE gone too far in lobbying against Al Jazeera?
  The UAE is reportedly seeking to have Al Jazeera registered as a foreign agent in the United States.

• Kurds strike deal with Russia and Syria to stem Turkish assault | FT
  A win for Assad and Russia

• Trump’s Abrupt Shifts in Middle East Unnerve U.S. Allies | NYT
  Analysis by David D. Kirkpatrick, Ben Hubbard and David M. Halbfinger

• 12 Hours. 4 Syrian Hospitals Bombed. One Culprit: Russia. | NYT
  Evan Hill and Christiaan Triebert analyze Russian Air Force activity in Syria

• Iran says missiles struck oil tanker near Saudi Red Sea port - Haaretz
  Iran says missiles struck oil tanker near Saudi Red Sea port - Haaretz

• Syrian Rebels See Chance for New Life With Turkish Troops - NYT
  Carlotta Gall on the upshot for the Free Syrian Army

• The men making a fortune from Syria’s war | Financial Times
  Chloe Cornish on the Makhlouf brothers.

• In Saudi Arabia, criticism of MBS increases after oil attack | Saudi Arabia News | Al Jazeera
  In Saudi Arabia, criticism of MBS increases after oil attack | Saudi Arabia News | Al Jazeera

• Russia Opens Digital Interference Front in Libya | MERIP
  Russia Opens Digital Interference Front in Libya | MERIP

• Family says Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah beaten in jail | Al Jazeera
  Family says Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah beaten in jail | Al Jazeera

• Scholars, Spies and the Gulf Military Industrial Complex | MERIP
  Shana Marshall

• Iran Attack on Saudi Arabia Shows Why Israel Must Shut Down Its Nuclear Reactor | Haaretz
  By Uzi Even, one of the Dimona nuclear power plant's founders

• Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China’s war on Uighur culture | FT
  Christian Shepherd

• Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Haunts Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince | New Yorker
  Robin Wright

• Laying the ‘Islamist’ bogeyman to rest | LobeLog
  Andreas Krieg on how UAE agents are engaging in propaganda with European right-wingers

• Dealing With China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost | NYT
  Farhad Manjoo on China and tech

• A Glass at Least Half Full
  Michelle Dunne on Tunisia's elections

• Children, Yet Convicted as Adults: A Report from Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
  On capital punishment for children in Iran

• He Was Detained. That Didn’t Stop Them From Kidnapping Him. - NYTYasmine Rashidi on Alaa Abdel Fattah

• Egypt: Largest wave of mass arrests since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power | Amnesty International
  Egypt: Largest wave of mass arrests since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power | Amnesty International

• Why the Middle East Is More Combustible Than Ever
  Rob Malley in Foreign Affairs.

• Kamel Daoud and the Paradoxes of Liberation | The Nation
  Kamel Daoud and the Paradoxes of Liberation | The Nation

• Google Is Deepening Its Involvement With Egypt’s Government

• Netanyahu approved submarine sale to Egypt to get discount from Germany, report says - Haaretz
  Friends and family deal?

• A review of The Novel of Ferrara
  Ursula Lindsey on the Italian writer Giorgio Bassani, Fascism and memory

• Why Republicans Love Israel – The Forward
  Peter Beinart: Republicans " see Israel as a model for what they want America to be: An ethnic democracy."

• An Iranian Dissident’s Tale | by Eric Randolph | NYR Daily

• NARCO ANALYSIS: US Think Tank Survey Distorts Political Attitudes of Algeria’s Military | North Africa Risk Consulting

• Will Sudan’s Revolution Succeed? - The New York Times
  Declan Walsh.

• On Resigning from the British Museum’s Board of Trustees | LRB
  Ahdaf Soueif

• Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood: a change toward democracy?
  Inapt title but interesting that MB now says it will not seek government post-Sisi.

• Sudan's ruling military council reports it has survived coup attempt | Guardian
  Sudan's ruling military council reports it has survived coup attempt | Guardian

• Egypt detains man behind pro-Mubarak Facebook page - Reuters
  Egypt detains man behind pro-Mubarak Facebook page - Reuters

• Precarious Teachers Strike for Public Education in Morocco | MERIP

• A Russian company's secret plan to quell protests in Sudan - CNN

• Bolsonaro’s Brazil | LRB
  Read this masterful piece by Perry Anderson even if you know nothing about Brazil, it has insights about weak democracies and clientelist systems that are universal

• Bitch Nation | LRB
  Musab Younis on the sexual fetishization of Arab men in France

• The Otherworldliness of Ibn Khaldun | NYRB
  Malise Ruthven reviews Robert Irwin's new bio of Ibn Khaldoun

• Yemen Under Siege | NYRB
  Robert Worth reviews books by Bonnefoy, Lackner and Brandt on Yemen's catastrophe

• Is the next Arab uprising happening in plain sight? | MonkeyCage
  Marc Lynch

• Learn from the best | Synaps
  Interviews with a range of professionals who document (in various ways) the Middle East.

• Who Is Matt Duss, and Can He Take On Washington’s ‘Blob’? | The Nation
  Very interesting piece on Duss - a great guy who is a refreshing change from the usual "blob" types.

• The Manufactured Controversy About Ilhan Omar and the Israel Lobby | MERIP
  Views from Joel Beinin, Noura Erakat, Omar Baddar, and Mouin Rabbani.

• AUC Board of Trustees reaffirms confidence in university administration against faculty, student vote | Mada Masr
  Mood at AUC must be pretty nasty.

• Dividing Morocco’s Islamists and Leftists | Sada
  Maati Monjib.

• Saudi Lobbying in Brussels Gone Awry | LobeLog
  Eldar Mamedov on Riyadh's clumsy EU lobbying.

• Guilt by Association | Carnegie Middle East Center
  Yasmine Farouk on U.S. dilemmas in supporting Saudi activism.

• Judicial candidates forced to undergo unprecedented evaluations as presidency exerts further control | Mada Masr
  Randa Mostafa on the gouging of Egypt's judiciary by the executive.

• Former Air Force Intelligence Agent Charged With Spying for Iran | NYT
  Adam Goldman reports on a bizarre but remarkable story.

• What Impact Will Morocco’s Decision to Withdraw From the Anti-Houthi Coalition Have? - Carnegie Middle East Center
  Very little is the consensus, but good background here.

• What Ilhan Omar Said About AIPAC Was Right | The Nation

• POMEPS Studies 33: The Politics of Rentier States in the Gulf

• Au Tchad, l'incursion des rebelles dévoile les fragilités du pouvoir | Crisis Group

• Egypt: Tailoring Constitutions for the Ruling Military | LobeLog
  Rana Allam offers goof overview - but is this about military rule, or Sisi rule?

• Empowered decentralization: A city-based strategy for rebuilding Libya | Brookings
  US group of scholars offers a new paradigm – but many cities contested.

• Egypt: Survival Is Also a Form of Resistance | Zeit
  Wael Eskandar.

• Egypt: A Move to Enhance Authoritarian Rule | HRW
  Constitutional amendments "would undermine judicial independence and expand executive powers that are already being abused".

• Dans le Golfe, entre MBS et MBZ, un prince héritier peut en cacher un autre | Mediapart
  On MbZ - interesting stuff about his maritime strategy and prospective alliance with China.

• Algeria student's throat slit in apparent homophobic killing | al-Bab

• En Algérie, une fossilisation du pouvoir | Le Monde

• Syria’s Torture Photos: Witness to Atrocity | by Susie Linfield | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
  When it comes to the Syrian war, a “relevant political consciousness” is precisely what does not exist. 

• A Princess Vanishes. A Video Offers Alarming Clues. | NYT
  The adult daughter of Dubai’s ruler tried to escape a life of stultifying restrictions. She was captured at sea, forcibly taken back, and has not been heard from since.

• Air strikes target al-Feel oilfield in southern Libya | al-Arabiya
  After standoff over Sharara.