- NPR recently gave us (meaning The Middle East Journal) a bit of a plug by quoting Asher Kaufman, an Israeli scholar at Notre Dame, on the Ghajar issue; Asher has a major piece on Ghajar coming out in the Autumn issue of the Middle East Journal, so the NPR piece is good hype for us. The NPR link has both text and a podcast. I know of only two people in the world who understand the border issues in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel border region: Asher Kaufman and Fred Hof, currently George Mitchell's man on the scene. There may be somebody at the UN, but those are the only two people I know who've spent years on the subject. Asher apparently is now working on a book on the theme.
- Some recent podcasts of MEI events while I was away: Qubad Talabani, the representative of the Kurdish Regional Government in DC (and Jalal Talabani's son), on Kurdistan After the Elections: A Discussion with Qubad Talabani. The description of the event is here. And from Abdel Moneim Said, a discussion of The Arab-Israeli Peace Process from and Egyptian Perspective. Said is the longtime head of the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, and recently was named Chairman of the Board of the Al-Ahram Group. The description of the event is here. As I always note for those of you in group offices, when you click on the podcast it starts to play, so use earphones if you have close neighbors.
- The US Institute for Peace has a video of its Conference on "Online Discourse in the Arab World: Dispelling the Myths," on "mapping the Arabic blogosphere." Here's the text summary. I haven't yet had time to watch this, but it's an always interesting subject.
- Over at WINEP, Simon Henderson is producing more Saudi succession speculation; the cover page is here and the full PDF document is here.
- Also at WINEP, David Schenker and J. Scott Carpenter offer their take on Mubarak Comes to Washington. I'll be addressing that shortly myself. Also from WINEP: Mohammad Yaghi on "Fatah Congress: A Victory for Abbas."
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