arabist
10514
Brotherhood mulls renewing supreme guide’s term
Egypt  muslimbrotherhood 
5 days ago
Diplomats predict Assad will soon launch campaign to retake Aleppo
Syria  Aleppo 
6 days ago
What the United States Should Have Said to Egypt about the NGO Trial | Atlantic Council
Kapow! Amy Hawthorne sets concrete challenge to Washington on Egypt NGOs.
ngos  egypt 
13 days ago
Egypt's gathering economic gloom leaves millions facing food shortages | Louisa Loveluck | Global development | guardian.co.uk
egypt  food  poverty 
13 days ago
Civil Disobedience on a Turkish Game Show - NYTimes.com
Brilliant.
turkey  taksim  media 
13 days ago
Turkey’s Secular Awakening - By Whit Mason | Foreign Policy
Turkey's protests aren't about Islamism or the elite. They're a call for true liberal democracy.
turkey  from twitter_favs
14 days ago
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2013/0604/US-bounties-changes-strategy-on-West-African-jihadis
15 days ago
World Briefing | Middle East: Egypt: Activist Sentenced to Prison for Insulting Morsi
Egypt  Morsi 
15 days ago
Twitter a Mirror for the Turkish Press, and the Reflection Isn't Pretty | TechPresident
Lisa Goldman on the scandal of Turkish media
Turkey  Media  Taksim 
15 days ago
PHOTOS: Demonstrators occupy Istanbul’s Taskim Square | +972 Magazine
Turkey  Istanbul  Taksim 
16 days ago
China Is Reaping Biggest Benefits of Iraq Oil Boom - NYTimes.com
china  IRAQ  Oil 
16 days ago
Does Spain's History Provide a Lesson in Syria's Civil War? - NYTimes.com
16 days ago
Quite a novelty
The deal for a "new Yemen"
Yemen 
16 days ago
AP News: Court says Egypt legislature illegally elected
Best piece I've seen on ruling so far.
shuracouncil  EGYPT  Constitution  SCC  Judiciary 
17 days ago
A report from Gezi Park
Istanbul  Turkey  Taksim 
17 days ago
Once a talk shop, Egypt’s Islamist-led upper house of parliament now a powerhouse - The Washington Post
shuracouncil  EGYPT 
17 days ago
FJP proposes army voting ban for next 5 years | Egypt Independent
A reasonable compromise.
military  FJP  MuslimBrotherhood  EGYPT 
17 days ago
Erimtan Angle Special: The Gezi Park Protests | istanbulgazette.com
Backgrounder on park plans.
Istanbul  Taksim  Turkey 
18 days ago
Power outages become routine in Egypt, triggering protests and campaigns - The Washington Post
energy  EGYPT 
19 days ago
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Zahi Hawass | Smithsonian Magazine
Zahi: "I’ve never slept with a prostitute in my life."
zahihawass  egyptology 
19 days ago
Obama’s Long Road to Peace by David Cole | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
Rather overly generous towards Obama.
obama 
19 days ago
A Tale From The Taksim Anti-Mall Mobilisations : rabble
On today's protests in Istanbul
Turkey 
19 days ago
Artists and the Arab Uprisings | RAND
Report looks at freedom of expression, funding.
arts 
19 days ago
From the Potomac to the Euphrates » Masters of Disaster
Excellent post by Steve Cook on the usual crazies in DC.
Egypt 
20 days ago
Stay Out of Syria! by David Bromwich | The New York Review of Books
Looks at US press debate on Syria, legacy of Iraq.
syria 
20 days ago
Salafism’s March through North Africa
Tarek Osman in Cairo Review predicts an eclipse.
salafism 
20 days ago
Islamists attack Turkey 'kissing protest'
Islamists  turkey 
21 days ago
Islamists: parliamentary elections will be held next year
Not good.
elections  Egypt 
21 days ago
Egyptian ambassador: Ethiopia dam 'a reality' to cope with
Nile  water  Egypt  Ethiopia 
21 days ago
Tuesday’s papers: Documentary made about Morsy, ‘Tamarod’ gears up efforts
Morsi  tamarod 
21 days ago
Bread rumours could lead to “mother of all crises” | REBEL ECONOMY
Good post, and good comment.
bread  EGYPT 
22 days ago
UK and France win battle to lift EU’s Syria arms embargo - FT.com
arms  syria 
22 days ago
The loneliness of resisting the conspirators against Hizbollah - FT.com
Roula Khalaf
Lebanon  hizbullah 
22 days ago
Mapping the Coptic Movements: Coptic Activism in a Revolutionary Setting
Jayson Casper
Copts  EGYPT 
22 days ago
The End of the (Southern) Neighbourhood
Paper on EU Med policy by Kristina Kausch
eu  europe 
22 days ago
Empire Wants What’s Best for the Arabs
Andrew Hammond reports from the Doha summit
arabspring 
22 days ago
Hizbullah's Syrian adventure
hizbullah  Syria  Lebanon 
22 days ago
The Al Jazeera Revolution - Newsweek
On AJ Amreeka
aljazeera  Media 
24 days ago
The Terrorist Threat from Syria | RAND
Seth Jones' testimony to Congress on Jubha al-Nusra.
SYRIA  terrorism 
24 days ago
The Islamist Rift Within Egypt | Atlantic Council
Egypt  Islamists 
26 days ago
Can the ‘Rebel’ Campaign Bring Down Morsi? | Atlantic Council
No, but...
Morsi  tamarod 
26 days ago
ElBaradei calls for early elections should Morsy fail to deliver change
Even ElBaradei says they will participate in elex, calls for two broad coalitions, liberal and left.
ElBaradei 
27 days ago
Are you a liberal imperialist? | Stephen M. Walt
interventionism 
29 days ago
La Tunisie s'attaque aux ennemis de l'État
Ennahda is getting this right, finally.
tunisia 
29 days ago
Thirty Hezbollah fighters killed in Syrian town: activists | Reuters
In Qusayr.
hizbullah  SYRIA 
29 days ago
Christians Flee from Radical Rebels in Syria - SPIEGEL ONLINE
SYRIA  Christians 
29 days ago
Govt 'will not be blackmailed' over kidnapped soldiers: Egypt's Morsi - Ahram Online
EGYPT  Morsi  Sinai  terrorism 
4 weeks ago
En Tunisie, les islamistes se déchirent
Ennahda finally takes on Salafis.
Salafis  tunisia 
4 weeks ago
Joseph Massad: an Occidentalist's Other Subjects/Victims | The Arab Leftist منبر العربي اليساري
A long critique.
josephmassad  homosexuality 
4 weeks ago
MEI Arab Transitions Project | Middle East Institute
New site focused on post-uprisings politics.
ArabSpring 
4 weeks ago
Salafist group clashes with police in Tunisia - Al Jazeera English
Salafis  tunisia 
4 weeks ago
Poll Shows Muslim Brotherhood Maintaining Support Despite Egypt’s Travails - Middle East Real Time - WSJ
Pew poll shows MB support still strong amidst general unhappiness.
MuslimBrotherhood  EGYPT  Poll 
4 weeks ago
Will Egypt Go Bankrupt? | Atlantic Council
Back-of-envelope calculation shows Morsi has bought time, perhaps till next year.
EGYPT  economics 
4 weeks ago
How Qatar seized control of the Syrian revolution - FT.com
Rather worrying if it is "in control"
syria  qatar 
4 weeks ago
Catastrophic thinking: Did Ben-Gurion try to rewrite history? - Magazine | Haaretz
history 
4 weeks ago
Hints of political change on horizon in Algeria
"The Arab Spring may finally be en route to Algeria."
algeria 
4 weeks ago
Il y a dix ans, le 16 mai | Ibn Kafka's obiter dicta - divagations d'un juriste marocain en liberté surveillée
morocco  terrorism 
4 weeks ago
Do the Massacres in Bayda and Banyas Portend Ethnic Cleansing to Create an Alawite State? - Syria Comment
SYRIA 
4 weeks ago
U.N. Calls for Political Transition in Syria - NYTimes.com
Syria  UN 
4 weeks ago
Grisly Killings in Syrian Towns Dim Hopes for Peace Talks - NYTimes.com
syria 
4 weeks ago
How Do You Say 'Quagmire' in Farsi? - By Thanassis Cambanis | Foreign Policy
Smart take, worrying for Syria.
iran  syria 
4 weeks ago
Confronting Tunisia's Jihadists - The Middle East Channel
Roundup of links and analysis by Andrew Lebovich.
tunisia  Salafis  from twitter_favs
4 weeks ago
The Islamists' paradox: Inclusion and moderation - Ahram Online
Khalil Anani takes on MB academic literature.
muslimbrotherhood  egypt 
4 weeks ago
Moxie Marlinspike >> A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch
Saudi wants to monitor Twitter, Viber, etc.
saudi 
4 weeks ago
Egypt's Judiciary Between A Tea Ceremony And The WWE - By Nathan J. Brown and Mokhtar Awad | The Middle East Channel
judiciary  egypt 
4 weeks ago
Why restoring the old paradigm in Egypt is not enough - FT.com
Ashraf Sewelam of the rentier state in Egypt.
egypt  economics 
5 weeks ago
Inclusion and Resilience
Wolrd Bank report on social safety nets in MENA
worldbank 
5 weeks ago
What Obama Gets and Neocons and Liberal Hawks Don't | Stephen M. Walt
"the greatest risk we face as a nation are self-inflicted wounds like the Iraq and Afghan wars"
stephenwalt 
5 weeks ago
zamaaan - your passport to the past
Lovely archive of historical Arab world pics.
Photography 
5 weeks ago
Boston Globe Backs Stephen Hawking on Boycott of Israeli Conference « LobeLog.com
BDS  stephenhawking 
5 weeks ago
Guarding Nile City Bringing Riches to Egyptian Commandos - Bloomberg
security  egypt 
5 weeks ago
Tunisia cracks down on Ansar al-sharia militants after clashes - FT.com
tunisia 
5 weeks ago
Brian's Coffeehouse: Iran's Registered Candidates
Iran 
5 weeks ago
A clarification: What international human rights activists really do
More from Scott Long on HRW "selling Mona Seif down the river"
egypt  hrw 
5 weeks ago
Fault Lines of the Revolution: Political Actors, Camps and Conflicts in the New Libya
[PDF]
Libya 
5 weeks ago
Intervene With Western Aid - NYTimes.com
On Syria.
SYRIA 
5 weeks ago
9 Detained in Bombings on Turkey Border With Syria - NYTimes.com
Tied to Assad regime.
syria  Turkey 
5 weeks ago
Egypt Arrests 3 in Plot to Attack Cities and an Embassy - NYTimes.com
US embassy targteted, Egypt now under AQIM?
aqim  EGYPT  terrorism 
5 weeks ago
Egypt Investment Drops as Citizens Turn Into Vigilantes - Businessweek
Grim story
EGYPT  drugs  Violence  economics 
5 weeks ago
Libya Militias Flee as Pro-Government Crowds End Siege - Bloomberg
libya 
5 weeks ago
History of Arabic Type Evolution from the 1930′s till present. | 29LT BLOG | Arabic Type Designer | Arabic Fonts | Arabic Typography & Graphic Design | Pascal Zoghbi
arts  from twitter_favs
5 weeks ago
« earlier      
#jan25 #nov23 academia activism afghanistan africa aid alexandria algeria alqaeda amrmoussa aqim arab arabic arabs arabspring arms art assad aymannour azhar bahrain bds bibi binladen blockade blog bloggers blogroll books boycott brotherhood bush cairo castlead censorship china cia cinema clinton comics congress constitution copts corruption culture darfur democracy democracypromotion dennisross diplomacy drugs dubai economics economy education egypt egypt-us egyptology elbaradei elections elections2011 energy environment espionage eu europe facebook fatah film finance flotilla food football france funny gamalmubarak gas gaza gcc gitmo goldstone gulf hamas hillaryclinton history hitchens hizbullah homosexuality hrw humanrights idf ikhwan imf intelligence internet interventionism iran iraq islam islamism islamist islamists islamophobia israel israel/palestine israellobby jan25 jazeera jerusalem jihad jordan journalism judaism judges judiciary kurds kuwait labor lebanon libya lieberman literature lobby maghreb mahmoudabbas mali mauritania mb mccain media mepp middleeast migration military morocco morsi mossad mubarak music muslim muslimbrotherhood myarticles ndp neocon netanyahu ngos nuclear nyt obama obamacairospeech obituary oil omarsuleiman opposition pakistan palestine parliament parties peaceprocess photography police policy politics poll poverty presidency protests qadhafi qaeda qatar racism rafah refugees religion review reviews revolution rights russia sahel salafis salafism sanctions saudi sawiris scaf sectarianism security settlements shia sinai smuggling somalia spy strikes succession sudan syria tahrir technology television terrorism torture tunisia tunnels turkey twitter uae uk un us uspolicy warcrimes water web westbank westernsahara wikileaks women workers yemen youth zionism

Copy this bookmark:



description:


tags: