Daily Links 08/31/2014

• A Meditation on Violent Language: Professor's Impassioned Tweets vs The University Memo | Lennard Davis

• Rickets returns as poor families find healthy diets unaffordable | Society | The Observer

• Paddy Ashdown slams 'kneejerk' Tory response to jihadi terror threat | Politics | The Observer

• This Is How People In The Middle East Are Making Fun Of ISIS

• From Gaza with the worst news: Orphaned while at college in America | Al Jazeera America

  tags: gaza

• Ahmed Seif, Who Was Tortured in Egypt and Became Rights Defender, Dies at 63 - NYTimes.com

  tags: egypt

• The US government can brand you a terrorist based on a Facebook post. We can't let them make up the rules | Arjun Sethi | Comment is free | theguardian.com

• Amnesty International | From bad to worse: Looming deadline compounds Egyptian NGOs’ woes

  tags: egypt

• Message From Human Rights Defender Maryam al-Khawaja

  tags: bahrain

• Jordan King given further exclusive powers - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

• Fire destroys more than 50 shops in Cairo's Shubra - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online

  tags: egypt

• Egypt's schools to open on time, unlike universities - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online

  tags: egypt

• Dar al-Ifta prohibits chatting between strangers of the opposite sex | Mada Masr

  tags: egypt

• Badie and 7 others sentenced to life, 6 others sentenced to death | Mada Masr

  tags: egypt

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