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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Egyptian X-Files : Tut’s Grasshopper, the Qatari Prince and Apollo "‘Updated" - It won’t be the first time, nor will it be the last—but raising awareness is still worthwhile. On 27 July at 1 PM GMT, the Apollo Art Auctions showroom i...
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Airdrops kill starving people with rotten food - Catastrophic blood shortage in Gaza means treatable, small wounds are fatal.11 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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War Crimes Then and Now: Hiroshima to Gaza - This week marks 80 years since the United States used its nuclear weapons against the civilian population of Japan in August 1945. Prior to that, the U.S. ...23 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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Avignon, deuxième épisode : « Faites tourner ! » - Enfances brisées, frites huileuses, percussions libératrices… Deuxième salve de perles glanées au festival « off » d'Avignon. - Contrebande / Théâtre1 week ago
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The war without end in Gaza - [image: A boy looks up from the rubble at a plane dropping aid into Gaza.]Israel’s latest plan to occupy Gaza City reveals that the assault on Gaza is more ...8 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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Israeli Generals, Security Chiefs Denounce Gaza War - Introduction: I preface this post with a disclaimer: it isn’t hagiography. It isn’t a love letter to Israeli The post Israeli Generals, Security Chiefs De...4 days 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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