Class resources and maps
(including blank map)
- Egypt
Concedes to Resistance on Privatization Push, New
York Times, June 28,
2010
- Rioters of the world
unite: They have nothing
to lose but their web cameras , The Economist, Dec. 18, 2008
- For
American Students, Life Lessons in the Mideast, New York Times, Aug 7, 2010
- Ian Fletcher, Free
Trade Does Not Work
, US Business and Industry
Council, Washington, DC, 2010 - with email concerning
LDCs
- Karzai
Aide in Corruption Inquiry Is Tied to C.I.A., NYT Aug. 26,
2010
- Yoram Yom-Tov et al,
"Does
the Physical Environment Influence Political
Corruption?"
Journal of Irreproducible
Results (a science humor
magazine poking fun at social scientology and other
pseudo-disciplines), current issue-note there is a serious
underlying school of thought artciulated by David Landes, 1998,
cited in the article, and many other writers from Montesquieu on,
dealing with the tristes
tropiques, often sharing
affinities with Orientalist schools of thought. But the current
writer of this hilarious article, Yom-Tov, is a zoologist at Tel Aviv
University.
- Hosni Mubarak, A
Peace Plan Within Our Grasp, op. ed., NYT Sept 1,
2010
- Troubles
at Afghan Bank Jolt Financial System, NYT Sept 1,
2010
- Aquastats
download in class of Sept
1, 2010, on water supplies and uses in Israel, Jordan, and
occupied Palestine
- Depositors
Panic Over Bank Crisis in Afghanistan, NYT Sept 3,
2010
- Link
to country demographic pyramids - US Census Bureau
- Rethinking
US Strategy in Afghanistan
released Sept 8, 2010, by The New America Foundation.
- Political
Ties Shielded Bank in Afghanistan. NYT
Sept. 8, 2010
- Regulators
Ignored Warnings About Afghan Bank, NYT
Sept. 19, 2010
- Is
Big Saudi Arms Sale a Good Idea? , US Council on Foreign Relations, NY, Sept 27,
2010
- Growing
water shortages in the Arab World, from POGAR-Arabstats (put online in Sept 2010,
calculated from Aquastats)
- Illustrating the rule of law in
Egypt: No
Death Sentence for Tycoon in Egypt, NYT,
Sept. 29, 2010
- Banks'
risk aversion to slow credit growth in MENA: IMF, Saudi Gazette, Sept. 30, 2010
- $
1.25 billion Dubai bond is launched, Khaleej
Times, Sept. 30,
2010
- Price Waterhouse and Coopers,
Open
to Comparison: Islamic
Finance and IFRS, pwc.com -2010.
- UN FAQ file on corruption
in MENA
- Another
UN, OECD et al portal against (the business of ) corruption in the
MENA) http://www.business-anti-corruption.com/country-profiles/middle-east-north-africa/
- only covers slightly more transparent countries.
- Arms
Market Active in Lebanon,
naharmet.com, Oct. 3, 2010
- Aoun
Says Christian Areas Would Be Spared Civil Strife if Geagea
Avoided Resorting to Arms,
naharmet.com, Oct. 5, 2010
- Brookings Saban
Center monthly updated
databases: Iraq
index | Afghanistan | Pakistan
- Libyan Attitudes toward Islamic
Finance - PhD
dissertation (summary) by Alsadek Hesain Abdelsalam Gait,
Griffith Business School, Feb 2009.
- 'GCC
customs is hallmark of advanced countries, Kuwait News Agency, Oct. 7, 2010
- Walls at
Every Turn: Abuse of
Migrant Domestic Workers through Kuwait’s Sponsorship System,
Human Rights Watch, Oct. 6, 2010
- Global Financial Integrity,
Illicit
Financial Flows from Africa, 2010 report (covers North Africa).
- Mona Alami, Up
in arms:Talking to weapons dealer Wael, Now
Lebanon, Oct. 8, 2010
(courtesy of Steve Brooke)
- AidData shows us total USAID to Israel since early
1970s to 2004 was slightly over
$40 billion in constant
2000 USD - thank you, Jess, for a great class
presentation!.
- Jamie Etheridge [former UT
student], Kuwait
sparks confusion with labour U-turn, Financial
Times, Oct 18, 2010
- Iran
Is Said to Give Top Karzai Aide Cash by the Bagful, NYT Oct. 24,
2010 - [Thanksgiving turkey? Low CIM country
- Econmist Intelligence Unit
(supported by Qatar), The GCC in
2020: Resources for the Future, Nov. 2010
- reporting my discussion with
El
Watan in Algiers on Nov 5,
El Watan, Nov. 9, 2010
- Economist Intelligence Unit,
The
GCC in 2020: Broadening the Economy, Nov. 2010
- Rami Khouri, A Guide
to the Young Arab World
(analysis of Silatech.com Gallup poll), Agence Globale, Nov. 23, 2010
- Bilateral trade treaties website:
bilaterals.org
- Foundation
for the Future - sponsored
by the G8 for the BMENA - with its 2009
annual report
- Stephen McInerney, The
Federal Budget and Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2010: Democracy,
Governance, and Human Rights in the Middle East
- Ziad Abdel Samad, Civil
Society in the Arab Region, The
International Journal of Not-For-Profit Law, 9:2 (April 2007)
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of Government, College
of Liberal Arts, University
of Texas at Austin.
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