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Me in a nutshell.
In Morocco for the summer
Mosaic
Blogs on the Middle East
Websites, Orgs, Newspapers, Journals on the Middle East/ Foreign Policy in general
- Afghans for Civil Society
- Al Hayat
- Al Jazeera
- Al Jazeera (Arabic)
- Arab Reform Bulletin - Carnegie
- Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
- Aswat al Iraq
- Aswat al Iraq (Arabic)
- Atlantic
- Azzaman (Iraq)
- BBC
- BBC Arabic
- Bill Moyers (I love you)
- Carnegie - Arab Reform Bulletin
- Carnegie Endow. Internat'l Peace
- Center for a New American Security
- Center for American Progress
- Center for Public Integrity
- Council Foreign Realtions
- Crooks and Liars
- CS Monitor
- CSIS
- Daily Kos
- Daily Star (Lebanon)
- Democracy Digest
- Economist
- Fact Check
- Foundation for Middle East Peace (Isr/Palestine)
- Freedom House
- Frontline
- George Packer
- Haaretz (Israel)
- HRW - MENA
- Hullabaloo
- Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
- Iraq Blog Count
- It's Still Burning: Thoughts on the Middle East in the age of Obama
- Jerusalem Fund/ Palestine Center (DC)
- Juan Cole
- Just World News (Helena Cobban)
- Link TV - Television Without Borders
- McClatchy
- Middle East Institute
- Middle East Research & Information Project
- Nahrain (Iraq)
- Nation
- National
- National Democratic Institute
- NPR
- PBS
- Pew
- Politico
- Project on Middle East Democracy
- Radio Free Iraq
- Real Clear Politics
- Riverbend - Baghdad Burning
- US Institute of Peace
Books on the Middle East and Islam
- Descent into Chaos: The US and the Failure of Ntion BUlding in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia, Ahmad Rashid
- Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, And the Wars Within, Shuja Nawaz
- Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians, Chris Hedges and Laila Al Arian
- Engaging the Muslim World, Juan Cole
- Ghost Wars, Steve Coll (My favotrie book)
- Islam, the West and Challenges of Modernity, Tariq Ramadan
- In the Footsteps of the Prophet, Tariq Ramadan
- Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan
- Leaderless Jihad, Terror Networks in the 21st C., Marc Sageman
- The Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats and the New Politics of the Middle East, Anthony Shadid
- Mission Accomplished: Or how we won the War in Iraq: The Experts Speak
- Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah, Olivier Roy
- The Failure of Political Islam, Olivier Roy
- Politics of Chaos in the Middle East, Olivier Roy
- The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, Thomas Ricks
- The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, David Kilcullen
- The Bin Ladens An Arabian Family in the American Century, Steve Coll
- THE EXPERTS SPEAK: THE DEFINITIVE COMPENDIUM OF AUTHORITATIVE MISINFORMATION
- The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman
- The Israel Lobby, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
- Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, Philippe Sands
- Understanding Terror Networks, Marc Sageman
- What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat, Louise Richardson
Films on the Middle East
- http://www.lemontreemovie.com/lemontree_en.html
- Sling Shot Hip Hop
- Heavy Metal in Baghdad
- Brothers at Arms(Doc on troops in Iraq)
- The Dictator Hunter (Bringing Hissene Hibre, former Chad pres, to justice)
- Route 181 (an Israeli and Palestinian drive the 1947 Partition line and interview people)
- Encounter Point (On Israeli and Palestinian peace activitsts)
- Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (On the abuses at Abu Ghraib)
- Taxi Cab to the Darkside, (On abuses at Bagram in Afghanistan, best doc 2008)
- Iraq in Fragments (Documentary on Iraq under occupation)
- My Country, My Country (Documentary on Iraq under occupation - amazing)
- Baghdad High(Recent documentary on four Iraqi boys)
Possibilities for Political Reform: Islamic Democrats and Others
Understanding Radicalization
- Islamist De-Radicalization in Algeria (ME Institute policy brief)
- Several books on understanding radicalization reviewed by Ahamd Rashid in NY Review Books
- What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat
- "Deprogamming Jihadists" (NYTimes article)
- Saudis Use Cash and Counseling to Fight Terrorism
- Knowing the Enemy: Can Social Scientists Redefine the War on Terror? (George Packer, New Yorker)
- Engineers of Jihad (U. of Oxford Sociology Dept.)
Local/ National Interests: DC stuff, public school reform, prison reform
Labels
- Afghanistan
- Africa
- Arab Reform
- Books
- Calling out
- Darfur
- DC issues
- DC restaurants
- Democracy in the Middle East
- Education Reform
- Egypt
- Foreign Policy
- Hamas
- Hezbullah
- History
- Insurgency
- Iran
- Iraq
- Islam
- Israel
- jihad
- Justice
- Kurds
- Morocco
- Murshida
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Newspaper articles
- Opposition
- Other stuff
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Pictures
- Politics
- Prison reform
- Radicalization
- Reform
- Saudi
- Sharia
- Somalia
- Steak
- Sunni Shii
- Syria
- Torture
- Tribes
- Turkey
- Uighurs
- Violence
- Women
- Women and Islam
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