On Sundays, I post a lot of links to things I think are worth reading, almost always from the previous week, and in exactly no particular order. I try not to link to the NY Times or other huge MSM outlets, and I mostly succeed. Click through, and look for something you weren’t looking for.

• Cairo, Hers Again: excerpt from Ahdaf Soueif’s book about Cairo and the Egyptian revolution.
• The Aesthetics of Authority
• On Laura Stephen, family ties, and madness
• Where They At: New Orleans Hip-Hop and Bounce in Words and Pictures.
• The Poor Storm: Ending mass Incarceration in America
• Tribalism in the Arabian Peninsula: It’s A Family Affair
• The ‘football riot’ in Egypt and Egypt Soccer Protests Challenge Military Regime
• “I’m afraid the masquerade is over and so is love, and so is love”
• Digesting East Kalimantan literature
• In Which Anonymous Infiltrates a Confidential Conference Call
• Six Arab Novelists on Why They Write
• Empire Bakuba – “Kwasa Kwasa,” Syllart Production

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