The Egypt-Israel Gas Deal

I stumbled upon this post by Mo-ha-med and discovered a pretty good blog. I am reproducing the post in full. It’s about time someone put this much investigation into such a politically and economically critical yet entirely opaque issue. Don’t neglect to check out the first post (referenced in the first line) and the comments [...]

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AUC adds Israeli to Trustees

Here’s the announcement from the AUC website:

Retired U.S. Diplomat Named to AUC Board of Trustees
June 21, 2009, Cairo, Egypt – The American University in Cairo announced today the appointment of former US ambassador to Egypt Daniel C. Kurtzer as a member of its Board of Trustees.  Kurtzer, the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East [...]

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Gaza Activist Arrests in Cairo

I just heard that Salma Said, Khaled AbdelHamid, Malek, Sabri El Sammak and at least 3 journalists have been arrested outside of the Arab League building in  Tahrir.  The activists were protesting in support of Gaza
UPDATE 1:05pm The number i am getting is 13-15 arrests. Apparently they have been shoved into micobuses. The few that [...]

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Egypt deports refugees

 Daily News Egypt article on the refugees expelled from Israel back into Egypt:
Egypt has deported Sudanese refugees who were returned from Israel on the understanding they would not be expelled to Sudan where they face torture or imprisonment, a security source said on Monday.
Some of the refugees returned from Israel were expelled to Sudan,” the [...]

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“Finkelstein’s Legacy at DePaul”

Article in CounterPunch by a DePaul professor reflecting on Finkelstein’s settlement with the university.

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“Israel’s Cost to the Arabs”

Another one thanks to the Arabist; this article, written in light of the recent reemergence of the Saudi peace plan, enumerates the many ways in which Israel’s existence and policies have had direct negative impacts on Arab development over the last 60 years.

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NPR’s Iran and its Neighbors series

National Public Radio has a six-part series on Iran and its neighbors that’s up on their website. According to the series, while Iranian leaders have long perceived their nation as the deserving leading power in the Middle East, it has only ever stumbled along trying to get there. It is only recent external factors that [...]

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The New Anti-Anti-Semites

The New Republic had this brief article a couple of weeks back by John Judis (it’s subscriber only, but it’s posted here at carnegie) in which he takes apart some of the claims of anti-semitism by American pro-Israelis.

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