Links: Odds and Ends

Here's a  Monday grab bag of the interesting, the odd, the funny, and stuff I can't find anyplace else for:

• From The Arabist: "Of Course Omar Suleiman's Office is Entirely Black."  And judging from the picture he reprints, it really is.

• Hurriyet Daily News: "Turkey 'Acquitted' of 1915 Incidents in Malta."  (Hat tip to Abu Reyhan al-Biruni via Facebook.) I'm not making this up: Turkey's EU Minister says Ottoman officials were investigated by the British on Malta after World War I and werte "acquitted" of the Armenian Genocide (the latter two words in quotes of course in a Turkish paper), so that proves it didn't happen. Well, now that that's finally settled . . .

• Geocurrents: "Circassians in Israel." Focusing on two Circassian villages in northern Israel.

• The always useful CairObserver blog: "Cathedral of Abbasiyya: "a Masterpiece in the Center og Cairo." The Coptic Cathedral of Saint Mark, seat of the Coptic Pope.

• Ahram Online: "Is Sham El-Nesim Against Islam?" More on Salafi attempts to promote a boycott of today's spring holiday in Egypt. Apparently, though, it didn't work and turnouts were normal or better.