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Pour un service public des données
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Eid in Gaza: Joy tainted by blood
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[image: Palestinian Muslims attend Eid al-Fitr prayer marking the end of
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Will US global hegemony last for another century?
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My weekly article for Al-Akhbar: "Will US global hegemony last for anther
century"?
(A critical review of Michael Beckley's new book from Cornell Universi...
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.)
Four people died in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, after being shot during anti-government protests on Friday. At leadst 40 people were wounded. All in all 16 people have now been killed in Aden since daily protests against th 32 year rule of president Ali Abdallah Saleh started on 27 January. Four more were killed in Sana'a and one in Taiz. Unrest has been especially intense in the once-independent south, where many people resent rule from the north. Loyalists and opponents of the 68-year-old leader held rival demonstrations in the capital Sanaa after Friday prayers.
Anti-Saleh protesters shouted slogans which have echoed around the Arab world since the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia: "The people demand the downfall of the regime." Saleh supporters chanted slogans in suppport of the president.
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