Saturday, February 21, 2009

More reading in February - Middle East

As usual, I try to thematize the links I collect to share with you... so I try to keep this to the Middle East.

Hussein Agha and Rob Malley for NY Review of Books on how NOT to gain Middle East Peace....

Tulin Daloglu for Middle East Times on change in the Turkish political landscape, also related to the Middle East.

Ingvar Oja for Utrikesbloggen on Al Jazeera and the Middle East media landscape.

Aftonbladet sees "Waltz with Bashir" on Israel and Lebanon.

More commentary on the film on Farah Diba, this time from Aftonbladet and a review from Dagens Nyheter.

The Guardian talks about Iranian president Ahmedinejad's domestic position. BBC meets Shirin Ebadi to talk about women's rights in Iran.

Al Jazeera meets everyday life in Kabul, during a month. Dagens Nyheter writes on renewed American policies.

BBC shows lovely photos from the desert in Oman. also in phptos, Arbaeen in Iraqi Karbala.

BBC also commemorates 20 years of the Iranian fatwa against Rushdie and his book.

Per J Andersson writes for Dagens Nyheter on modern slums, mainly in India and other parts of the Third World.

The National reports direct UAE-Kashmir flights.

In the UAE, new press legislation is being worked out - the National reports. Also the position of Persian-related individuals and families in the Emirates is discussed. Heritage preservation in Sharjah is also a topic of reporting.

The continued debate on the need for development of not least the knowledge economy in the Arab world is mirrored in the National.

Issues of women and wealth in the Gulf reflects another aspect of this needed development.

Al Jazeera shows a series of programmes on terrorism.

A shrine in Morocco draws Sufi visitors from all over western Africa.

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