Returning and Current Questions

The last month has seen light posting for two reasons: (1) this writer has been ill (due to exhaustion and then a virus) and so blogging has been a lower priority and (2) work and other projects have consumed most of the time time usually reserved for blogging as a result of time lost due to illness. As a result several posts that had been envisioned or planned were not finished, posted or written and their subject matter is now dated. Events are moving so quickly in the region they require more general reflection and analysis as opposed to rapid blog updates on narrow events.

Since becoming ill this writer has focused on taking short notes on the Algerian and Mauritanian protest movements and government responses to them and putting the ones concerned with Algeria into a vaguely organized bulk format which has ended up being too long to be posted here. Readers may solicit a digital version by email if they are so inclined (write to: nourithemoor [@] gmail.com ).

Regular blogging will hopefully resume in the next week. Before that happens, though, here are some issues and questions of interest (for this blogger) related to recent events. These will likely be the main themes of the next several posts: Read the rest of this entry »