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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Much gratitude to all of you who donated to
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بصمات أصابع
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حبيبتي
رُغم أننا في نفس القارب
نهاياتُ القصصِ أخذتْ تختلف
أسبقُكِ ربما
أو نُواصلُ معا
طرقٌ يتحسّسُ الجسدُ فيه
المزيدَ من الجسد
قصدتُ الأرميني العجوز في م...
Pour un service public des données
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Bonne nouvelle pour ceux d'entre nous qui mettent en garde contre les
dangers de « l'extractivisme des données » depuis des années : la méfiance
envers F...
Is Israel using depleted uranium to bomb Lebanon?
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[image: An Israel Air Force F-35, nicknamed Adir, rehearses for a flyover
above Jerusalem, April 19, 2023. (Photo: Nir Alon/ZUMA Press Wire/APA
Images)]Isr...
Why America and Israel need a new Iran strategy
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Mobilization of Arab resources to crowd Iran out is more practical than
using US power or Israeli covert ops to subjugate Iran or to coercively
roll it b...
This blogname was derived from a satiric Arabic novel by the Palestinian Israeli Emile Habiby. In the ''The Secret Life of Saeed The Pessoptimist'' he uses absurdism as a weapon against the (ir)realities of daily life in Palestine/Israel. I consider it to be an example for how events in Israel/Palestine best can be approached.
The subtitle is from a book by Dutch author Renate Rubinstein. In a way that is also still my motto.
My real name is Martin (Maarten Jan) Hijmans. I've been covering the ME since 1977 and have been a correspondent in Cairo. In 2018, I concluded the study 'Arabic language and culture' at the University of Amsterdam.
I started 'Abu Pessoptimist' in January 2009 out of anger about the onslaught of that month in Gaza. The other blog, The Pessoptimist, is meant to be a sister version in English. (En voor de Nederlandstaligen: ik wilde in november 2009 een tweede blog in het Engels beginnen en ontdekte te laat dat als je één account hebt, een profiel dan meteen ook voor allebei de blogs geldt. Vandaar dat het nu ineens in het Engels is... So sorry.)
This picture seem to be circulating on the internet and as a poster out in the streets. It illustrates Egyptian recent history in a most eloquent way. It reads:
The high one built the higd dam,
the low one built the low dam...
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