Vacation reading?

This posting has been unpublished due to lack of internetaccess since more than a week. But on July 24th, I wrote:


Packing my home to relocate has taken most of the last few days and blogging has not been a priority. Now vacation on a beach awaits us, but before that I would like to share some reading from the last few days, not least on the Turkish elections. You all know by now that the result was a resounding message from the Turkish electorate to continue the course of the last few years.


But first, a Dagens Nyheter op-ed on antiterrorism expertise and it's place in the open debate. It is actually very notable for many reasons and I can not recommend it highly enough!

And then as promised a few background pieces on the elections in Turkey:

from Svenska Dagbladet: an op-ed on islamists as the political future and again on a similar theme
And here some articles on women, on nationalism and losing sons, on conspiracy theory, on election proceedings...

from Expressen on forward-looking politics and the now again-ruling AKP (even if the article precedes their re-election)

A Swedish-Kurdish journalist was killed in a Kirkuk-bombing in July.

A very interesting article whose theme belies the assumption that Palestinian politics are wholly clan-dominated and family-steered, on 2 brothers who make opposite political decisions on the future of Gaza.

Even if water has run under the bridge, this expose of Israeli reflections after last years war in Lebanon may be of longer-term interest.

And finally some BBC picture features, this one on Palestine and this on the re-vitalization of society in Algeria.