{"id":1694,"date":"2006-03-19T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2006-03-19T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-19T16:04:00","slug":"1694","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1694","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>CATEGORIZATION AND NOMINATIONS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Scanning my blogroll, which kind of evolves in a meandering fashion, here is one of the informal topical groups that comes to mind:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Middle East\/Islamic World\/Islamism:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abuaardvark.typepad.com\/\"><strong>Abu Aardvark<\/strong><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aqoul.com\/\">Aqoul<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centcom.mil\/sites\/uscentcom1\/default.aspx\">CENTCOM<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lounsbury.aqoul.com\/\">Collounsbury<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/counterterror.typepad.com\/\">Counterterrorism Blog<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xrdarabia.org\/blog\/\">Crossroads Arabia<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iraqthemodel.blogspot.com\/\">Iraq the Model<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jihadwatch.org\/\">JihadWatch<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/\">Juan Cole&#8217;s Informed Comment<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinkramer.org\/pages\/899527\/index.htm\">Martin Kramer<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/francona.blogspot.com\/\">Middle East Perspectives <\/a><--<span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"> NEW<\/span><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">!<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turcopolier.typepad.com\/sic_semper_tyrannis\/\">Sic Semper Tyrannis<\/a><\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/>I&#8217;m opening up the floor for nominations for high quality, informative blogs that deal with the Middle East, particularly if they add balance or provide a completely different perspective from what I already have on my blogroll. No conspiracy theorists, please.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally I&#8217;m looking to add 1-3 new ones. You can email me or leave a rec in the comments section.<strong><em> Zenpundit<\/em><\/strong> doesn&#8217;t have a huge traffic ranking but it does get read occasionally in select quarters by some smart people so the bloggers will at least get that out of the link ( I grant you that I will probably get far more out of reading the new blogs but when situations mostly benefit me I tend to believe that all is right with the world).<br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CATEGORIZATION AND NOMINATIONS Scanning my blogroll, which kind of evolves in a meandering fashion, here is one of the informal topical groups that comes to mind: Middle East\/Islamic World\/Islamism: Abu AardvarkAqoulCENTCOMCollounsburyCounterterrorism BlogCrossroads ArabiaIraq the ModelJihadWatchJuan Cole&#8217;s Informed CommentMartin KramerMiddle East Perspectives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}