Saturday, August 09, 2008

Vacation reading links

From my lazy couch in Stockholm, I still want to share some reading with you - but expect less links and less frequent in coming weeks too perhaps...

Developments in Turkey have been spinning on since I last posted:
here Dagens Nyheters analysis of the crucial week
Svenska Dagbladet interviews Jan Hjärpe on bomb attacks in Istanbul
Barbro Hedvall's editorial analysis in Dagens Nyheter
BBC meets the elite that are wary of the AKP.
Dagens Nyheter's comment on when the AKP were NOT dissolved by legal decree.
New York Times published this editorial on the topic.
Michael Rubin writes in the latest MidEast Monitor on the situation.

Chris Pattern for The National on European Middle East policies.

Urban Hamid reports for Svenska Dagbladet from Baghdad.

BBC poses the question of British conduct in Basra.

The Baalbek festival sings again, according to the BBC.

BBC writes on the recent coup in Mauretania.

BBC points out the legal difficulties meeting UAE expats.

BBC shows more video clips on their website these days, here with a young Muslim man from Kenyan Lamu.

Svenska Dagbladet reports that a group of Iranian judges want to stop the stonings in Iranian law.

Sultan Al-Qassemi in the National on Saudi-arabia

Swedish football player Christian Wilhelmsson has signed a contract for Saudi Al-Hilal - Expressen writes of his new life.

BBC meets a Kurdish novelist, slated to be published also in Arabic.

BBC meets a Kosovar teacher and Sufi with strong social networks.

Aftonbladet writes on the pro-democracy and gay liberation movements in Belarus.

Expressen highlight recent difficulties to obtain ID's in Sweden, especially for resident non-citizens .

A Bosnian refugee in Sweden tells Svenska Dagbladet of her involvement in the Swedish society and her contributions to it.

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