What about Danny Thomas?” Uncle Hal asks. “What happened to him?”Dead,” Uncle Abdelhafiz says. “Nice Lebanese boy.””Never mind about Danny Thomas, look what happened to your whole family! Look at your cousin Farouq, Great Uncle...

I’m in my junior year but I can’t take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry […] It’s like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground

Slavery has been outlawed in most arab countries for years now but there are villages in jordan made up entirely of descendants of runaway Saudi slaves. Abdulrahman knows he might be free, but hes still...

Marry, don’t marry,’ Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple strudel. Just don’t have your babies unless it’s absolutely necessary.’How do I know if it’s necessary?’She stops and stares...

Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs....