SRW_Monthly Analysis

Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr: Anger at execution of top Shia cleric – BBC News

See also: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/02/suadi-arabia-cleric-execution-unrest-predicted-shia-areas?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H&utm_term=147332&subid=7639334&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Protests in Srinagar: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35216657

Saudi Arabia executes top Shia cleric – BBC News

See also: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/ben_hubbard/index.html
and http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/01/02/world/middleeast/ap-ml-saudi-arabia-the-latest.html

Wandering Worshippers: Mosque Attendance Patterns among First- and Second-Wave Iraqi-Shi’a Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, USA

Incidents of Anti-Shiism in November 2015

Shia Weekly News #41

Incidents of Anti-Shiism in October 2015

Painful Archaeology: Excavating Saddam’s Mass Graves

On Ashura Day, Al-Azhar criticizes Sunni ‘hard-line stance’ on Shiites

The BBC story on the closing can be found at:
http://www.bbc.com/arabic/middleeast/2015/10/151022_egypt_hussein_shrine.shtml

Here is reaction from Moqtada al-Sadr
http://arabic.cnn.com/middleeast/2015/10/23/iraq-shia-moqtada-alsadr-egypt

and from inside Egypt
http://www.shorouknews.com/news/view.aspx?cdate=24102015&id=609802a2-b60a-4770-852c-6c0eb52a0275

For the Azhar fatwa on Shiism (in Arabic), see
https://ar.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%B4%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%AA

Analysis indicates Shia populations are being underreported