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I’m tired of always calling this “Weekend Reading,” and my daughter starts fourth grade Monday so we’ve been talking about the imminent return of homework, so I think I’ll call it that for now. Should you feel the need to spend still more time reading about the Middle East, here are some items:

• Podcasts of recent events at MEI: On August 27 (yesterday), US Ambassador to Kuwait Deborah Jones gave a briefing on Kuwait; I attended this one and she was pretty forthcoming, especially in the Q&A. Also, from August 19, Dr. Shamsh Kassim-Lakha on “Development Challenges in Pakistan.” Podcasts begin to play when you click on the link.

• Dana Moss, a Libya specialist at WINEP, has some thoughts on Qadhafi’s 40th anniversary of the revoloution and his forthcoming visit to the UN. (I’ll post about the whole Englewood, New Jersey controversy at some point. Qadhafi setting up his tent in Jersey is just too good to leave alone.)

• A friend and reader passes along this article on the Al-Ghosaibi family’s claim that they have been the victims of a massive fraud by a Dubai bank. From the Financial Times.

• The same reader also recommends this peace by Hazem El-Beblawi, “Political Identity and Economic Interest.” Also worth a read.
  

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