Egypt-based blogger Issandr El Amrani selects a few essential readings here, where he links to articles of interest to his readers including one about how some Iraqi refugees are turning to the sex trade in Syria and the uproar an agreement to send 120,000 Egyptian housemaids to Saudi Arabia has caused.
“The plural of “anecdote” is not “data.”" remarks Gregg Carlstrom at The Majlis, in response to FP's article on temporary marriage in Lebanon.
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