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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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Day 404: "If Palestine wins, we all win" - Craig Mohkiber on the test of international law in Palestine and resisting genocide under Trump.1 day 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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Morocco to double Green Energy in Sahara in anticipation of 2030 World Cup - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The World Cup, disputed territory and green energy are three of the things that increasingly make the world go round, and th...7 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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The future is the oldest Arab prisoner: On Walid Daqqah’s eulogies of hope - [image: Palestinians in Gaza City take part in a protest in solidarity with sick prisoner Walid Daqqah on May 24, 2023. (Photo: Youssef Abu Watfa/APA Image...21 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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Project Esther: Christian Nationalists Weaponize Anti-Semitism - The evil spawn of Project 2025 is Project Esther (PE), a plan to criminalize pro-Palestine activism in the The post Project Esther: Christian Nationalists...1 day 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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