2014-09-20

Refugees Fleeing to Europe Face Death From Smugglers
Astonishing cruelty

Egypt Begins Surveillance Of Facebook, Twitter, And Skype
To fight terrorism and homosexuality, officials say

Russia, Egypt seal preliminary arms deal worth $3.5 billion: agency
Who's paying?

EXCLUSIVE: Egypt Begins Surveillance Of Facebook, Twitter, And Skype On Unprecedented Scale
US company hired to track blasphemy and sarcasm

500 migrants feared dead in Mediterranean migrant shipwreck
Awful

"Death of Arabic" Issue Gets a Lecture at Brown by a Fellow Skeptic

Busted: Egypt’s ‘Panama Canal’ blunder goes viral - Al Arabiya
Pathetic and typical.

On the ‘Authoritarian Turn’ of the Egyptian Intelligentsia
Discussion with Khaled Fahmy, Robyn Creswell, Mona El Ghobashi

Egypt court orders release of Alaa Abdel-Fattah, Noubie, Metwali on bail
First good news in a while

Veterans of Elite Israeli Unit Refuse Reserve Duty, Citing Treatment of Palestinians
Say innocent Palestinians are persecuted, blackmailed to be informers

Inside The Chilling Online World Of The Women Of ISIS
Stupid, heartless young women

After the Ceasefire
How Israel has respected it so far

Arabs Give Tepid Support to U.S. Fight Against ISIS - NYT

Les milices de Misrata prennent le pouvoir en Libye

"Libya Is Not Safe for You If You Want to Speak Your Mind" | MERIP

William McCants | ISIS' Strategy and How to Counter It | Foreign Affairs

Email leak suggests long-term Egyptian role in Libya crisis | Middle East Eye

Iraq: The Outlaw State by Max Rodenbeck | The New York Review of Books
Max Rodenbeck on ISIS.

Lebanese craft beer: Pour me another | The Economist
Must make trip to Beirut.

Haunting Photos of the Children Toiling in Egypt’s Limestone Mines

Statement by Steven Salaita
Professor whose job offer was suddenly rescinded for "uncivil" tweets about Israeli bombing of Gaza

Egyptian Chronicles: The Arab regimes fight #IS or So They say
Cri de coeur from Zeinobia

Lessons Not Learned: Trading Democracy for ‘Neoliberal Militarism’ in Egypt | Dr. Emad El-Din Shahin

SISMEC | Al-Qaeda Could Help Fight the Islamic State
Stupid idea of the week.

Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks - NYT
Important read.

My Life As An AP Bureau Chief In Israel
A response to allegation Western media is anti-Semitic and biased against Israel

British human rights investigators disappear in Qatar, after being followed by plain clothes police
They were investigating conditions of migrant workers

Sisi Is Trying To Build A New Suez Canal But It's Not Exactly Going According To Plan

Inside ISIS: The Making of a Radical
On young Danes (of Arab background or not) who have joined ISIS

Saudi Arabia bans top officials from marrying non-citizens

Racist Violence Against Sub-Saharan Migrants on the Rise in Morocco

'I reported from conflict zones and got post-traumatic stress disorder' - Telegraph
Nadine Marroushi

Key shifts in the Arab 'moderates' position on Hamas and Israel
Andrew Hammond

Operation Barkhane: Why France chose Chad as key counter-terrorism partner – By Celeste Hicks | African Arguments

Saudi Arabia's Twitter Whistleblower: @mujtahidd | Provocateurs | OZY

Daach, les révélations dangereuses d’un militaire marocain arrêté | www.le360.ma

'Humiliating dismissal' for Algerian president's advisor | Middle East Eye

Algerian jailed for two years for filming police officers stealing - ALGERIA - RFI

Special Gaza War Poll | PCPSR
Massive increase in Hamas popularity after war.

The quasi-covert military trial of Ansar Beit al-Maqdes
Hossam Bahgat on Egypt's new jihadis

Saudis consider demolishing Mohamed’s tomb
Because it is a shrine, especially venerated by Shias

The War Photo No One Would Publish
Because it showed the terrible death of an Iraqi soldier in Desert Storm

The Arab Region at Tipping Point-Carnegie
Yezid Sayigh

Last chance? - Al-Ahram Weekly
On a new reconciliation with MB initiative.

Are Moroccan Gangsters Being Paid to Beat Up Sub-Saharan Migrants? | VICE UK

Chez les bourreaux du Sinaï
On migrants tortured by traffickers.

Suez Canal Project Helps Egypt's Generals Gloss Their Image - Businessweek

Islamism beyond the Muslim Brotherhood « The Immanent Frame

Al Qaeda’s New Front: Jihadi Rap - Amil Khan - POLITICO

The Sisi Government’s Attempts to Win Over Egypt’s Civil Servants-Carnegie Middle East Center

Bahrain arrests top human rights activist
Maryam al-Khawaja arrested. She comes from an activist family; her father has been in jail since 2011

Israel undertakes largest West Bank land appropriation in years - FT

Egypt Evicting Rafah Residents to Create a Buffer Zone

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