Pessoptimist

There was a much lesser vogue for spikier secular writers, such as the late Abdelrahman Munif, author of the Cities of Salt quintet, and the late Israeli Arab Emil Habibi, whose novel Saeed the Pessoptimist is the favorite narrative of many Palestinians (and who also had the grace to win Israel's national prize for the best writing in Hebrew).

Mind the Gap 2004

There was a much lesser vogue for spikier secular writers, such as the late Abdelrahman Munif, author of the Cities of Salt quintet, and the late Israeli Arab Emil Habibi, whose novel Saeed the Pessoptimist is the favorite narrative of many Palestinians (and who also had the grace to win Israel's national prize for the best writing in Hebrew).

Mind the Gap 2004

The archetypal statement of this bittersweet combination is a 1974 novel, The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, a recasting of Candide written by Emile Habiby, an Israeli Arab who served for two decades in the Knesset as a Communist and was the only man ever awarded the highest civilian honors from both the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

The archetypal statement of this bittersweet combination is a 1974 novel, The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, a recasting of Candide written by Emile Habiby, an Israeli Arab who served for two decades in the Knesset as a Communist and was the only man ever awarded the highest civilian honors from both the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

The archetypal statement of this bittersweet combination is a 1974 novel, The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, a recasting of Candide written by Emile Habiby, an Israeli Arab who served for two decades in the Knesset as a Communist and was the only man ever awarded the highest civilian honors from both the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

"I'm increasingly pessoptimistic," he said, echoing the title of a satirical novel from 1974, "The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist," by Emile Habiby, an Arab-Israeli writer who served in the Knesset for nineteen years.

The New Yorker Wendell Steavenson 2011

Bakri began his solo performance of the great play "The Pessoptimist" in 1986.

Palestine Blogs aggregator 2010

Bakri began his solo performance of the great play "The Pessoptimist" in 1986.

palestinefreevoice Editor Publisher Hiyam Noir 2010

Hatim Kanaaneh writes in a rueful, bemused and amused style about a protagonist called "Hatim Kanaaneh" who occupies a literary space somewhere between the Palestinian author Emile Habibi's protagonist Saeed the Pessoptimist and the Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek's Schweik:

Palestine Blogs aggregator 2008

Hatim Kanaaneh writes in a rueful, bemused and amused style about a protagonist called "Hatim Kanaaneh" who occupies a literary space somewhere between the Palestinian author Emile Habibi's protagonist Saeed the Pessoptimist and the Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek's Schweik:

MUNICH - AND A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING 2008