Weekend Reading: Mapping the Middle East, What ISIS Is Not, and Egypt’s Total Information Awareness
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In this interactive map, David McCandless charts the key players in the Middle East and the relationships between them.
Alireza Doostdar argues that ISIS is more a product of war and instability than Salafist ideology.
Ahmed Ezzat examines the motives and implications to Egypt’s new mass Internet surveillance policy.