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Essential reading

Articles and documents of topical interest that you may have missed:

Algeria:
Comments on Algeria
The Moor Next Door blog, 9 May 2013

Egypt: 
Egypt’s new constitution: challenges for religious freedom and related rights
Katrina Lantos Swett. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 12 March

Yemen: 
Yemen's National Dialogue
Collected analysis from the Project for Middle East Political Science, 21 March, 2013

Jordan: 
Monarch in the Middle
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 18 March

Egypt: 
The Shias: Egypt's forgotten Muslim minority
Zeinab El-Gundy, Ahram Online, 18 March

Iraq: 
The democracy boondoggle in Iraq
Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy, 5 March

Egypt: 
Egypt and the rise of Islamism

Charles Holmes, Conservative Middle East Council, February

Saudi Arabia: 
My attempt to break the driving ban in Saudi Arabia

Omaima Al Najjar, 27 February

Egypt: 
Egypt's music of protest: from Sayyid Darwish to DJ Haha
Ted Swedenburg, MER265 (Winter 2012)

Iraq: 
George Bush or George Galloway? Ten years on from the Iraq war protests
Chris Doyle, CAABU, 14 February
  

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The Birth of Modern Yemen

An e-book by Brian Whitaker exploring Yemen's political development since unification of north and south in 1990.

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An open door to the Arab world

  

NEW: Yemen's National Dialogue  
A compilation of articles and documents

Armchair revolution 
Books about the Arab uprisings

Learning Arabic in the Middle East 

What's Really Wrong with the Middle East 
'A passionate call for political and social change in Arab countries ... and a stern critique of the status quo'

Unspeakable Love 
Gay and lesbian life in the Middle East

  

  

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