Check out Khamsin: Journal of Revolutionary Socialists of the Middle East, the Middle East Socialist Network list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mesn/ . This was a very good piece in MR recently, http://www.monthlyreview.org/1002hanieh.htm "Class, Economy, and the Second Intifada, "by Adam Hanieh.
Good history of Arab Left, Was the red flag flying there? : Marxist politics and the Arab-Israeli conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965, " Joel Beinin. Beinin is one of the targets of Campus Watch.
Current example of why mass socialist political consciousness/culture in Arab states is so resistant to marxist and left movements. From Doug Keller's BlogLeft, http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/blogger.php Michael Pugliese