One of the first confronting and invasive questions that I was asked by a tutor during my first year at university was whether or not my parents would marry me off at […]
The problems with Miss Lebanon Australia
10 deadly ways to say ‘I love you’
Arabs rarely do anything by halves, and love is no exception. Theirs is a love that consumes and engulfs. Its flames invade the barriers of the soul with warmth and danger, simultaneously. It […]
How to OMG like an Arab
Arabs were at your service with a dramatic exclamation for every occasion long before Gen-Y coined the ever-punchy moniker “OMG” (Oh my God). Years of watching Egyptian musalsalaat (television series) revealed that, […]
The race to get married
“Over and over again, stories in women’s magazines insist that women can know fulfilment only at the moment of giving birth to a child…there is no other way for a woman to […]
Four ways Arab families show love
Everyone has at least one crazy uncle. I have about six. Without airing my family laundry, it would be fair to say that I grew up in a pretty strange household, […]
