Watch this: ElBaradei on Iran
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Watch this interview with Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, former Vice President of
Egypt and former Director General of the International Atomic Energy
Agency, in...
The war on Iran is making it stronger
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US scrambles to contain an energy crisis of its own making as Tehran shows
it can counter Washington and Tel Aviv with force.
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...
La main pense
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Au Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole, on a pu
voir récemment « Le verre au-delà de la matière », une exposition qui
restitue...
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.)
Police in Bahrain is not the protester's best friend
Al Jazeera English this disturbing footage of how Bahraini police in a most rude way dispersed protests on Saturday with teargas and rubber bullets. Scores of protesters were wounded. Protests in Bahrain are bound to continue if one sees this.
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