New stuff on the web about the Middle East:
Mike Davis, of City of Quartz fame, takes on Dubai in the New Left Review:
On the rim of the war zone, a new Mecca of conspicuous consumption and economic crime, under the iron rule of Sheikh al-Maktoum. Skyscrapers half a mile high, artificial archipelagoes, fantasy theme parks—and the indentured Asian labour force that sustains them.
Abd al-Monem Said Aly has published a brief with the Crown Center at Brandeis called "The Sixth Arab-Israeli War: An Arab Perspective." Download the PDF here.
The latest issue of the MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies also focuses on the Israel-Lebanon war. Find it here.
Anthony Cordesman of CSIS asks whether there is a civil war in Iraq. Download the answer here. (Hint: it's "yes.")
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