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My Blog List
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Kodak Agfa presents: El-Mawlid bazaar 2024 at Cairo’s El-Sayeda Zeinab in photos and videos - I should have posted weeks ago, but I could not with the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the war on Lebanon by Israel. It is never too late though. Tonight...
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Grief and cancer fells mother parted from children - Gaza’s deliberately decimated health sector unable to care for cancer patients.2 hours ago
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Twitter et Facebook obéissent au doigt et à l'oeil aux autorités d'occupation - Tweet bloqués : Twiter « collabore avec Israël dans la censure des messages venus de l'extérieur ». Dans ce qui est la dernière étape de la collaboration ...8 years ago
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Heartfelt Thanks to our Generous Readers - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Much gratitude to all of you who donated to our successful fundraiser this year, in which we sought some extra funds to defe...10 hours ago
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بصمات أصابع - 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...
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Pour un service public des données - 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...6 years ago
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Is Israel using depleted uranium to bomb Lebanon? - [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...16 hours ago
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Why America and Israel need a new Iran strategy - 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...3 years ago
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Migrated to Twitter - This blog has largely migrated to Twitter. You may catch me there @asadabukhalil5 years ago
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IDF Intelligence Cell Conspired to Steal Top-Secret Intelligence and Passed It to Netanyahu - Turning and turning in the widening gyre …Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed The post IDF Intelligence Cell Conspired to St...8 hours ago
About me
- Abu Pessoptimist
- 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.)
Emil habiby
Renate Rubinstein
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