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#6Oct73: Those Quran verses at Dawn Prayer - This post is marked at *4:25 a.m. Cairo local time*, the time of Al-Fajr (dawn) prayer on 6 October 1973. It was the 10th of Ramadan, 1393 AH, and, as us...
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Livestream: Israel's "democratic genocide” - Why Haim Bresheeth-Žabner, whose parents survived the Holocaust, says Gaza is worse. Trump’s 20-point “peace” plan. Resistance tunnels outwit Israel and ...9 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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IC Fundraising Appeal: Support Independent Journalism in a Year of Living Dangerously - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – These are parlous times for people who speak out against injustice, and I cannot thank our loyal readers enough for their co...14 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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La France insoumise est-elle anticapitaliste ? - La France insoumise se lance dans une grande entreprise doctrinale de révision de la théorie des classes, plus exactement de la classe, celle qui remettr...4 days ago
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Two Years of Genocide: Trump’s war on free speech began with Gaza - [image: President Donald Trump at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland on July 28, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)]The...1 hour 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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Hamas Conditionally Agrees to “Peace Plan” - Earlier this week, Pres. Trump threatened Hamas, warning it to accept terms of his “20-point” deal or face The post Hamas Conditionally Agrees to “Peace P...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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