I was treated today to a very nice hour over coffee and iced tea with Barry Rubin, prolific author and analyst, in Tel Aviv. The least I can do to repay is to link to his latest article : If you want to understand what's really going on in the...

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In an interview with the Saudi Okaz news agency last week, the head of the Mecca division of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice spoke out on the topic of "ikhtilat," the mixing of the sexes, at a new Saudi science.

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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies pulls no punches in its annual report on the state of human rights in the Arab world. While it gratuitously and erroneously slams Israel as well, it heavily criticizes Arab regimes, and provides a nice summary.

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From Al Arabiya: Spanish police have arrested nine men suspected of seeking to have a woman killed after they accused her of adultery, claiming they were following sharia (Islamic law), authorities said on Sunday. The men were arrested on...

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A few articles that people recommended for me: Alan Johnston returns to the Middle East for the first time after being kidnapped by Palestinian Arabs, and shows his impartiality by writing the BBC's umpteenth typical "evil settler" story ...

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