I´m off to the land where the delicacies in these pictures originate from and I´m travelling without a pc.This blog is temporarily closed till 30 July.
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Days at the Egyptian Museum of Cairo: Hapi of the Nile Flood - Today, Egypt is officially celebrating Wafaa al-Nil or the Nile Loyalty Festival. If you think this is a newly invented holiday, think again. Wafaa al-Ni...
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Gaza's journalists get massacred, Western press mollycoddles Israel - Deutsche Welle contributor shills for weapons industry.18 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 ...9 years ago
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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France, the United Kingdom and Germany (the “E3”) on Thursday sent a formal letter to the UN Security Council asking for sna...20 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...7 years ago
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Ce que « Bolloré » fait au livre, aux éditeurs et aux auteurs, 2e partie - Où l'on a vu comment l'installation du milliardaire et militant d'extrême droite catholique Vincent Bolloré en pole position des groupes éditoriaux franç...1 week ago
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The problem with Hamas equating the Gaza genocide to the Holocaust - [image: Palestinians bury the bodies of 110 people killed by Israeli attacks in a mass grave in the Khan Younis cemetery, November 22, 2023. (Photo: © Moha...5 hours ago
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Returning to Hafiz al-Assad’s Syria: Bashar Heads Back to the Future in 2020 - President Bashar al-Assad was the main catalyst for reform in Syria’s economy and to a lesser degree in its political institutions before the 2011 uprisi...5 years ago
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Will US global hegemony last for another century? - 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...6 years ago
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As Hamas Approves New Ceasefire Plan, Netanyahu Goes to War - UPDATE: Much of this post was written before Netanyahu began his promised invasion of Gaza a few hours The post As Hamas Approves New Ceasefire Plan, Neta...1 week 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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