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...
Gaming the Iran war and the Gaza Genocide Syndrome
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[image: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivers remarks to L3Harris
employees as part of his Arsenal of Freedom Tour, Camden, Ark., Feb. 27,
2026. (DoW phot...
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...
American Judaism Has Lost the Jews
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Over the years, I’ve written passionately about what I see as the decline
of American Jewry. Specifically, the
The post American Judaism Has Lost the Jews...
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.)
Due to vacation this blog will be closed (or almost closed, depending on the circumstances) till the beginning of August. Starti ng 1 or 2 August it will, hopefully, be bussiness as usual.
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