Some Links for the Snowed-In

I don't post on weekends normally, but if you, like me, are anywhere on the eastern seaboard of the US north of Florida, then you, like me, are snowed-in by a record snow. Somewhere between one and two feet in the DC area, and still winding down. So I thought I'd post a few links from recent days for those who can't get out of their homes yet. The only plow my street has seen was last night, and we've had 24 hours of steady snow since then. So in the meantime:

• Marc Lynch's People of the Year 2009: Middle East Edition. While I'm tempted to do something similar I suppose I'd seem to be derivative. Some thoughtful choices, though.

• Greg Gause guest-posting at Lynch's site on the Kuwaiti confidence vote. A good background treatment.

• I haven't posted some recent MEI podcast links: the whole list is here; some good presentations, among them Tom Lippmann on Saudi Arabia, former hostage John Limbert and Trita Parsi (separately) on Iran, Claude Salhani on the Bush years, William Polk on Israel, Palestine, and the US.
  

That should keep you busy till the plows come. (For those of you lucky enough to be in the Middle East, never mind.)