Some Links
Egypt Blogs America: 8 Egyptian bloggers in the U.S. at election time. A project sponsored by the Adham Center at AUC. “HR 362 gets 8 new co-sponsors” Bad news from Iran Nuclear Watch. The Russian Debutante’s Handbook by Gary Shteyngart.
UAE: The geopolitics of excess
Let’s read these two articles together. First from AP second from The Times: U.S. plans $7 billion missile-defense sale to UAE The Bush administration is planning to sell the United Arab Emirates an advanced U.S. missile defense system valued at
This is getting ridiculous
From Reuters: Egypt postpones fixed-line licence auction CAIRO, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Egypt’s telecom regulator said on Monday it had decided to postpone an auction for a second fixed-line licence for a year, citing global market woes. “The National Telecom
First day at AUC new campus
I’m back in Egypt and have a ton of work in front of me, which means Friday in Cairo is back in action! Yesterday was my first trip out to AUC’s new campus in New Cairo, from Tahrir, a 51
Response to Martin Kramer on Ann Lambton
Martin Kramer had a post today on the MESH blog at Harvard pointing out that all the Ann Lambton obits (like this one) glossed over her advisory role in the 1953 US-British coup. A valid and timely point to make,
Thou shalt use energy saving bulbs
Iran’s Tabnak news site had an interesting story today about a letter they wrote to an ayatollah asking him to justify using huge light displays at religious festivals while Iran was facing an energy crisis and power cuts. Here’s my