Carl in Cairo

After finishing six pages of a literature review analyzing the foundation of State of Israel through the lens of a chapter from Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism, I plunged into my thesis again, making halting progress. I can feel my brain atrophying as the virtual stack of sources cluttering my desktop crowds out my thinking space. I shall overcome, however. In a matter of months it will all be over (which is bittersweet, actually–I really like researching). Anyway, now for the news:

Egypt

• Government bars Israeli cancer researchers from participating in Susan G. Komen Foundation events in Alexandria
• Cairenes catch on to carpooling
• Yet another good article on sexual harassment in Egypt that won't make any impact because its readership is a bunch of foreigners

Elsewhere in Africa

• Sudan's president/alleged war criminal-in-chief invited to Nigeria for AU conference
• American Evangelicals put LGBT Africans' lives at risk

Migration & Refugees

• UN warns host countries against returning Iraqi refugees to unsafe conditions
• African refugees in Chicago make movie about gang violence