Daily Links 11/09/2014

• Harry Belafonte Receives Humanitarian Oscar - NYTimes.com

• ‘Censors at Work,’ by Robert Darnton - NYTimes.com

• Pope Demotes U.S. Cardinal Critical of His Reform Agenda - NYTimes.com

• A to Z of the Guardian News and Media Archive - in pictures | GNM archive | The Guardian

• US government sees off legal challenge over Guantánamo force-feeding | US news | The Guardian

  tags: guantánamo

• UK condemned over arms sales to repressive states | World news | The Guardian

• Gaza’s businessmen facing bankruptcy - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

  tags: gaza

• In stark transformation, Egyptian rights activist dies fighting for the Islamic State - The Washington Post

  tags: egypt

• Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin review – personality proves decisive | Books | The Guardian

• The first world war in stereoscope... photographs from the front line | World news | The Guardian

• New York Times op-ed says academic science isn’t sexist: That’s not what the data show.

• Egypt's political parties mobilise against elections laws, though registration nears - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online

  tags: egypt

• I take responsibility for bus crash but won't resign: Egypt's education minister - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online

  tags: egypt

• Egypt's highest court strikes down SCAF decree banning clemency - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online

  tags: egypt

• Journalists launch front to defend media freedoms | Mada Masr

  tags: egypt

• Qatari network Jazeera challenges its ban in court - News - Aswat Masriya

  tags: egypt

• Activist Ragia Omran innocent of disrupting trial - Daily News Egypt

  tags: egypt

• Becoming Natalie Davis | University Affairs

• Egypt receives 300 recommendations in UN human rights review - Daily News Egypt

  tags: egypt

• ASA Launches Nationwide Initiative to Document Assaults on Academic Freedom and Higher Education | American Studies Association

• Cabinet to review bill tightening restrictions on army-related news | Mada Masr

  tags: egypt

• An Interview with Mohamed Elshahed | Middle East Research and Information Project

  tags: egypt

• Three Ways Courts Screw the Innocent Into Pleading Guilty - The Intercept

• How Voter Suppression Helped Produce the Lowest Turnout in Decades - The Intercept

• Monochrome Cairo and sepia Syria: early photographs of the Middle East – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian

  tags: egypt syria

• Bullying in academia: ‘professors are supposed to be stressed! That’s the job’ | Higher Education Network | The Guardian

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.