February 2012
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“This is the worst war we’ve ever seen. And they’re getting away with it.”
– The late journalist Marie Colvin, as written in a personal obituary penned by Channel 4’s Lindsey Hilsum. Colvin, a reporter for the Sunday Times, was one of two western journalists killed after the shelling of a neighborhood in Homs, Syria on Wednesday. [Channel 4] (via producermatthew)
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“Steeped in Arab political history but also in its culture, Shadid recognized...”
– Tributes pour in for New York Times journalist Anthony Shadid who died in Syria (via guardian)
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#feb17: Libya one year on – messages to mark the... →
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“I would love to tell you Mr. Baradei that you have become my role model and for...”
– One of the Egyptian Twitterati, following the former candidate’s kissing Angelina Jolie.
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Disarming Graces →
Carnegie alum Amanda Kadlec explains why the militias in Libya aren’t keen to disarm — but also why we shouldn’t be alarmed.
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Policing Reform, Reforming Police →
Andrew Exum & J. Dana Stuster explain how/why the US should take its military aid and instead refocus it on the security sector.
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Bashar al-Assad, Comic Hero?
Slate’s very informative, eminently readable take on the Syrian Dictator, in graphics. Read for more background.
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RAF helicopter death revelation leads to secret... →
guardian:
Important story from Ian Cobain - a must-read
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“The demonstrations that Syria witnessed last Friday (“forgive us Hama, we...”
– Wadah Khanfar: ‘Syria between two massacres: Hama’s memory endures’ (via guardian)
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“Every government has the responsibility to protect its citizens, and any...”
– President Obama calls on Syria’s Assad to step aside immediately, following the massacre of citizens. (via think-progress)
Arab Spring graffiti makes its way to Madrid →
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“Many people are just waiting to be told they can fight back”
– A young professional from Homs sums up the mood on Syria’s streets. As the country’s civil unrest looks ever more like civil war, imams preaching non-violence may be the last barrier holding back a surge to arms. (via theeconomist)
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A revolution without dancing... →
is a revolution not worth having.
Great piece in Guernica on hip-hop and the Middle East over the past year:
January 2012
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“In Egypt, 800 of the 1000 literate people surveyed by the foundation said that...”
– Leah Caldwell, in Akhbar’s recent article debunking the Arab literacy rates.
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“[Bruce] Riedel here has committed the cardinal sin of Yemen-writing: mentioning...”
– Brian O’Neill, via The Atlantic.
We’re reading up on Yemen in preparation for February’s (insha’Allah) Saleh-less presidential elections.
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Greening up Hizbullah?
Green Prophet takes on Nasrallah’s recent planting of (literally) a million trees:
From the late 1980s, Hizbullah has shown itself to be really engaged in environmental activities in the Dahiyah, south Lebanon and the Biqa’, regions populated heavily by Shi’ites, and also elsewhere throughout Lebanon. These environmental activities have included public health, agriculture, and organic...
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As recently as July 2011, the U.S. government... →
rightsandhumanity:
Urge the U.S. State Department to stop authorizing the shipment of weapons, ammunition, and equipment that Egypt’s government could use to violently suppress human rights.
Take Action!
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“There is gender-based violence from the state, in the home, in the streets. It...”
– Read Nina Burleigh’s article at TDB on the lawsuit brought by Samira Ibrahim and Egypt’s sexual harassment problem here.
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