Arab Spring Tours! Academic Tourists Sight-Seeing the Revolutionary Region

This was expected: you get war tourism after all, refugee camp tourism in Lebanon, and now this.... Arab Spring Tours! An analysis of the world map in its position on Palestine; Lucky Lebanon (the chosen few) gets faster internet, leaving the rest behind; And 'One Day'.

Come see the Arab Spring- in a holiday package tour! Egypt's tourism is about to pick up again: After a blow to the tourism trade, the country is set to benefit from the boom in touristic curiosity to experience aftermath regional revolution.

Jadaliyya [2]

Academic Tourists Sight-Seeing the Arab Spring

Roll up, roll up for the Arab Spring tour! We've fixed some sample or 'demo' protests for you, especially! After suffering the blow of the revolution to the tourism trade, the country is set to benefit from the boom in touristic curiosity to experience the revolutionized Arab world. Writers and academics are sweeping in for some first hand sources. (-ed) "I would like to share with this short piece a concern that several of us in academia in Cairo have been facing with the impact of the Arab Spring, to point to some frustrations regarding the continuing unequal academic relationship between so-called “local” and Western experts of the Middle East, between broadly speaking the North and the South (although this classification is clearly clichéd), and the reshuffling of the international division of labour in the academic field whereby inequality is and will still be prevailing."

Occupied Palestine [3]

Map of the Day: Countries that Support Palestine’s UN Bid

If you missed it last time: 'Today’s map comes via Chris Albon. (Really, though, it is just an excuse to link to this great summary from What’s in Blue about the next procedural steps on Palestinian membership to the United Nations.) The map is from Imgur.com and purports to show “countries that will support Palestine’s UN bid for statehood this month.” '

Cinnamon Zone [4]

One Day…

"One day, I will get rid of my worst habit One day, I will pet a giraffe One day, I will own a horse One day, I will know"

A Separate State of Mind [5]

3G in Lebanon To Be Delayed and Not Launch in October?

Fast internet for the select few, leaving behind the masses. "4000 lucky people are already using the service – of which I am one – but for the rest of Lebanon, the tantalizing dream of faster internet will possibly just stay a dream."

Antropologi [6]

The dubious behaviour of Western researchers sightseeing the “Arab Spring”

More analysis on just why this latest turn of tide in the tourism, or speculative academic, industry is 'suspect'. "Egyptian sociologist Mona Abaza has written an interesting article about “growing inequalities” between researchers from the Middle East and the West."