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    History: Intro; Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
    Elections come to Saudi Arabia
    Sudan
  • Essay on the Darfur Violence
  • Judging Khartoum: 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Recent posts: 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Information resources on Sudan
    • Tunisia
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    Site of the political movement (banned in Egypt)
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    History of the ME | Database
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    Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
    Mostly conservative critique of neo-con performance
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    Luminous site devoted to Lebanon
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    See also Iraq and Ecology
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    Univ. of Arizona Middle Eastern Studies blog
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    Chan’ad Bahraini
    Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches
    not for the squeamish
    Dove's Eye View
    Damned Empire
    Electronic Intifadas
    Free Thoughts on Iran
    From Cairo with Love
    Guerrilla News Network
    Head Heeb
    Arab World; Israel-Palestine Conflict
    Ihath
    the journey of a Czech-born Iraqi woman
    Informed Comment | Juan Cole
    J.E. Peterson.net
    Several compelling papers on Gulf States
    Iranian Truth
    KABOBfest (satire-group-Palestinian)
    Montréal, Palestine
    Moorish Girl
    Nur al-Cubicle
    Patrick Belton's writings (Oxford, UK)
    Really interesting, well-researched essays on Muslim world, etc.
    Raising Yousuf (Laila El-Haddad-OT)
    Palestinian mother & journalist in Occupied Gaza Strip
    Semitism.net
    The War in Context

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    PBase Algeria|Egypt|Iran|Lebanon|S. Arabia|Tunisia
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    Aggregator of editorial, scholarly publications
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