We start this week's reading recommendations with a think-tank report on Iraqi refugees and their situation in neighbouring Syria and Jordan.
For those of you with a Foreign Policy log-in, you can here read Graham Fuller's thoughts on how Islam shapes the world and whether Islam as such shapes the world of today - or would the same problems not take another shape in A World without Islam?
This week in the Middle East has been dominated by the journey of president George Bush. Svenska Dagbladets here writes on the visit from a Gaza perspective. Expressen here describes it as "the last chance for Bush". Dagens Nyheter calls in "monkey politics"...
Freedom House has just released their latest index and report - see their webpage.
The imprisoned Iranian-Kurdish journalist Adnan Hassanpour has been reportedly been awarded Reporters without Borders press freedom prize for 2007. I can't find more information on it though - so I may come back on it.
Here in the UAE, apart from the visits of Bush and Sarkozy, this week's more noteable events include "heavy" rain. See BBC's pictures of street floods!
BBC pictures also notes the celebration of Ashura. And BBC publishes a story on a returning Iraqi refugee woman and what she finds in her Baghdad home - returning so to the topic of today's first link above.
For this week's diversion from current politics and the Middle East, read here about the Prague ball season!
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