Link updates continue

First 2 links from this week:
Aftonbladet on women, power and sex in modern film.

National runs a story on the "Arab Booker"-prize shortlist..., results to be announced at the Abu Dhabi Book Fair.

And deeper into the autumn backlog:
Dagens Nyheter ran an editorial on Russian gas policies, mentioning my mother!

Svenska Dagbladet writes of Barack Obama's Arab appeal and runs an editorial on Obama and Iran policies. Washington Posts writes of Arab and other bloggers in the election race.

BBC reports on a British Dubai sex scandal... Later, a "swinger-scandal" hit Cairo.

Svenska Dagbladet reports on a trial against a molester in Egypt. The victim and brave reporting woman is interviewed here!

Svenska Dagbladet also meets the man behind "Young Freud in Gaza".

IWPR raises the alarm for journalists in Iraq. BBC reports on the tragic fate of a young Iraqi woman in a tribal environment... Another hard-pressed group in Iraq are Christians, as reported here by BBC.

National reports on ethnic disturbances in Turkey. BBC discusses the trial uncovering the "deep state".

Cyprus is also featured in Dagens Nyheter.

National runs a forum on the environment in the UAE - a difficult issue in the best of times.

Dagens Nyheter visits Istanbul and Svenska Dagbladet travels to Damascus.

National ran this story on preserving architecture in New Delhi.

BBC reports on seabed finds off Indonesia, highlighting Indian Ocean trade.

Cordelia Edvardsson for Svenska Dagbladet on lessons of how a Greek antique reached a private Swedish home... Dagens Nyheter writes on historical research into the history of capital punishment in Sweden.

And finally some posts in the Swedish debate - on criminalising forced marriages and on parents and taking leave to spend with their young children.