Links 25 November - 22 December 2013

Last link dump of the year...

West signals to Syrian opposition Assad may stay | ReutersTo kill or not to kill: Army and politics in post-revolution Egypt - Al Jazeera English
Omar Ashour.Preventing South Sudan’s Inferno - The Daily Beast
ClooneyGabbling and Gobbling on the Nile | Jonathan Guyer
Thanksgiving in Cairo, featuring friends and colleagues of the ArabistFighting in South Sudan: More accident than plot | The Economist
A strange so-called coupThis Egyptian Constitution Poster Is A Total Disaster
Poster at press conferences misspells "Egyptians," features random white people from the internetGaza floods force thousands to flee their homes - PhotoBlogGaza mental health pioneer dies aged 70
El SarrajCatastrophe for Gaza
A 2008 op-ed by Dr. Eyad Sarraj, who just passed awaykeef keef | Inanities
Sarah Carr on TunisBritish and German couple 'held in Egypt without charge' for a month | World news | The Guardian
More disturbing rogue ineptitude from the Egyptian policeTunisia's Transition Continues
Some progress, but still long to go.Dispatch from Iran: Ruffled feathers | The Economist
Military grumbles about Rouhani.Karl reMarks: Six Kalīlah wa Dimnah Tales: Thinly-Veiled Arab Spring FablesWhat role does the Palestinian question play in global jihad? « jihadicaEgypt’s third constitution in three years: A critical analysis
al-Ali: reflects "tribe-like mentality" of state institutionsEgypt police 'inflict pain like it's an art' | MinnPost
More Khaled Saids.BBC Radio 4 - The Making of the Modern Arab World, Episode 1
A new documentary by Tarek OsmanSnowden and Snooping
Chas Freeman on the NSAASA Members Vote To Endorse Academic Boycott of Israel | American Studies Association
Read the testimonials.Brothers’ bloc defeated in Doctors Syndicate elections | Mada MasrSegregation:our secular values need to be protected | Observer editorial | Comment is free | The Observer
Good piece.