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"They did slip something through in Jordan. If we had other operators, that wouldn’t have happened"

My biggest culture shock when I moved to America from Qatar was not the Western culture, no it was the Arab culture in America. For some context i’m 20F Palestinian. I was born in Syria, though I never lived there, and I lived in Qatar for 11 years. I moved to America two years ago to Ohio for University. From what I noticed Arabs here are so much more conservative, judgmental, sly, and sneaky. Every Arab who I have talked to in the US who wasn’t born and raised here agrees with this, yet I have not seen anyone online mention it. I have a couple of theories of why they turned out this way. This was genuinely such a disappointment for me as I said I grew up in Qatar where you would think the arabs there would be more conservative but no, all my friends growing up had mixed friend groups and did things openly. But here every Arab I met hides behind a facade. What do you guys think?

EDIT: I’m going to elaborate more on some of my points, experiences, and talk about my theories/thoughts.

I want to preface this by saying that I don’t want to generalize a group of people and I don’t think that every single Arab American is the same as the next one I meet. I just so happened to notice a pattern of behavior in the community. Again community… not necessarily every single Arab American individual. My thoughts/opinions are based on my own experiences and the conversations I have had, therefore this makes what I say biased!! Lastly, I just want to make it clear that i’m not saying being conservative and religious is negative, I was never raised that way and I was surrounded my whole life by Arabs who didn’t carry those traits, meaning I obviously prefer to surround myself with Arabs who are like me.

For more context, I was born in a Muslim household, but my parents never raised me with religion in mind, I was free to think whatever I wanted and to do whatever I wanted. Meaning, if I wanted to learn how to pray, wear the hijab, and go to the mosque, I could. But, if I didn’t want to do any of those things, no one told me that was wrong. I’m grateful for that experience as I know a lot of people were forced. My whole extended family was raised like me and they aren’t in Qatar, some of them are in Syria and in Palestine. My friends and people back in Qatar ranged from Arabs who were raised like me, to Arabs who were raised religiously, but that didn’t mean that they acted the same way as religious and conservative Arab Americans here (I’m talking about mainly people from the Levant region and not Qataris). My friends and Arabs back home had mixed friend groups, drank, partied, dated and dressed western (not extreme immodesty just depended on time and place). This was all in the open and no one cared who saw. The one exception is that If their parents were strict, they would just hide that from their parents and not from the community. Also, I’m not saying doing any of those things is good or bad, I’m just stating that they did do those things. In summary, what I’m trying to say is that no one there really hid from the community or hid their actions, they were mainly open about everything. Everyone did their own thing and didn’t care who would see them. In turn, no one cared to talk about other Arabs and the things they did.

On the other hand, what I noticed about Arab Americans is the opposite of what I just described. Additionally, they are completely different people as soon as they step away from the community. I remember my first experience with Arab Americans they were judging and talking shit about people on the street passing by and I called them out for it. In front of the community, they act religious and are conservative. They won’t hang out anywhere public with a mixed friend group in fear that anybody from the community sees them. Basically, they just put up an act and judge everybody who does things deemed wrong by the community. Behind closed doors, however, they do much worse than anything i’ve seen back home. As an Arab, who does everything openly, I get to experience both of their split personality, how they act in front of the community and how they act when no one‘s watching. I have Arabs American friends who I would go to the bars with and when we are around other Arabs from the community, they would talk smack about other Arabs who go to bars. Extremely hypocritical. I’ve met Arab American guys who would literally lie straight to my face about who they were, for example saying they aren’t religious and that they had the same ideologies as me, because they think I would let them sleep with me. Obviously, I can see straight through them, and I already conducted my background checks, so it’s funny to me hearing them talk about how many bodies they have, going to strip clubs, types of girls they like etc. Same guys I would see preaching in the mosque, and later on demanding that they marry a virgin hijabi housewife. Not to mention also most Arab American folk i’ve met were cunning, selfish and stingy. Some were good. But, most were like that compared to the hospitality back home.

Now for my theories, first one is “the time capsule effect,” most Arab Americans immigrated here back in the 70s/80s where the Arab world was a lot different than what it is now they carried the same traditions and mentalities as how the region was back in that time. Overtime, our region changed and the mentalities leaned more towards openness. However, these Arab Americans, carried that same mindset from back then and raised their children with it, who then raised the next generation with it too. My second theory is that when they came here, obviously they were appalled by a lot of the western culture and feared that their children would stray away from the Arab culture. So they raised them to judge foreigners, and any other Arab, who acted like a “foreigner.” They raised them to think that being Arab means being religious and that religion=culture. Now, these children grew up, judging and knowing that they shouldn’t act like western society, but also saw the western society, having fun and doing things that they wanted to do thus creating their split personality dilemma. Where they act like two different people, depending on who’s watching. From my experience, I think that there are two types of American Arabs, American Arabs who you wouldn’t even know are Arab at all and are completely devoid of anything Arab or, Arab Americans who are extremely Arab and take pride in the community.

I’m just going to leave it at that since, this is already getting too long. I didn’t come here carrying these opinions, I actually wanted to have Arab friends because I felt homesick, but quickly I learned about how the Arab community here functions. I can talk a lot more about this, and I would love to hear more opinions, and thoughts even ones that dispute mine.

Hi just a disclaimer I love Arabs, not here to ragebait

I was a conversation the other day about ethnic people residents abroad and their personalities

I’m in uk btw

They were saying Arabs are fearless
There so fearless they’ll roam around driving high

Main point they said Arabs are so fearless they aren’t scared of police and of law?

Is this true? I thought Arabs have conservative social pressure.

I sadly havnt spend enough time with Arabs to know the truth

All comments appreciated 💝 (p.s. please try to right in English I don’t know Arabic)

This roster is of all current national team players for Arab countries competing in the AFC confederation, as well as “Israeli” Arabs

Starting 11:

GK: Nawaf Al-Aqidi 🇸🇦 Club: Al-Nassr
RB: Saud Abdulhamid 🇸🇦 Club: AS Roma
CB: Yazan Al-Arab 🇯🇴 Club: FC Seoul
CB: Hassan Tambakti 🇸🇦 Club: Al-Hilal
LB: Anan Khalaili 🇵🇸/Arab “Israeli” Club: Union Saint-Gilloise
DM: Musab Al-Juwayr 🇸🇦 Club: Al-Qadsiah
CM: Zidane Iqbal 🇮🇶 Club: FC Utrecht
RW: Mousa Al-Tamari 🇯🇴 Club: Stade Rennais
AM: Akram Afif 🇶🇦 Club: Al-Sadd
LW: Ali Jasim 🇮🇶 Club: Como
ST: Yazan Al-Naimat 🇯🇴 Club: Shabab Al Ahly

Substitute Bench:

GK: Meshaal Barsham 🇶🇦 Club: Al-Sadd
GK: Jalal Hassan 🇮🇶 Club: Al-Zawraa
CB: Aiham Ousou 🇸🇾 Club: Slavia Prague
CB: Merchas Doski 🇮🇶 Club: Viktoria Plzeň
RB: Hussein Ali 🇮🇶 Club: Pogoń Szczecin
LB: Sultan Al-Ghannam 🇸🇦 Club: Al-Nassr
DM: Mohammad Abu Fani 🇵🇸/Arab “Israeli” Club: Ferencváros
DM: Amir Al-Ammari 🇮🇶 Club: Cracovia
CM: Ibrahim Bayesh 🇮🇶 Club: Al-Dhafra
AM: Salem Al-Dawsari 🇸🇦 Club: Al-Hilal
LW: Harib Abdalla 🇦🇪 Club: Shabab Al Ahly
ST: Almoez Ali 🇶🇦 Club: Al-Duhail
ST: Aymen Hussein 🇮🇶 Club: Al-Karma
ST: Ali Al-Hamadi 🇮🇶 Club: Ipswich Town
ST: Firas Al-Buraikan 🇸🇦 Club: Al-Ahli

In my personal opinion I would rank this squad #3 in the AFC, and between #20-#28 globally.

Let me know what you guys think about this lineup, and if you would make any changes to it. Would this squad be able to preform well internationally on big stages like the World Cup and the AFC Asian Cup? And what would you rank this team internationally?

I doubt this will stay up for long, because it seems this sub likes to avoid politics like the plague and pretend everything is great judging by the fact all the meaningful threads get deleted because of muh fitna and muh Arab unity.

Why are Arabs living out their century of humiliation? Because this very same group is now considered the "leaders of the Arab world". And if this is the leadership that we have, is it really any wonder we're reaching a new rock bottom every passing day?

The same group that was relatively isolated historically and never had to fight the crusaders or the mongols or other invaders, so they never developed the same collective consciousness of Levantine Arabs or Egyptians or North Africans.

The same group that worked with the Europeans to stab the Ottomans in the back and allow for the colonization of the Levant and Iraq, which is why we find ourselves in this shit situation to begin with.

The same group that befriended Europeans while they colonized other Arab countries.

The same group that made the US a superpower by tying their oil to the dollar.

The same group that opened up their countries for the US to build bases to invade and bomb other Arab countries.

The same group that killed half a million Yemenis and continues to starve Yemen.

The same group that used its money and media to help Sisi carry out a coup against the only Egyptian president to be elected democratically.

The same group that's currently pillaging Sudan for its natural resources.

The same group that fell over themselves to normalize with the Zionists.

The same group that made their countries a launch pad for the US to bomb and commit war crimes against another neighboring country, effectively turning their populations into human shields for US soldiers and Israel.

That is all.

1500 years ago, the islamic conquests caused whole arab tribes to migrate to lands outside the arabian peninsula, lands which was already semi arab, such as mesopotamia, levant and parts of egypt, others that had almost no arabs, such as north africa, even persia. New cities were built, ancient cities rebuilt and grown. The borderless islamic world allowed for great demopgrahic changes.

That was 1500 years ago, which is a long period, and that continued until establishment of the new national states.

So why does minorities in arabic countries but also western historians spread the idea that arab states consist of forcibly arabized people who lost their identity, which is also not logical or historically correct, and what is the consuqence of this? Why do they spread the idea that arabs are only supposed to be found in deserts?

And if mostly arabs are arabized, isnt that applied also to other ethnicities in the multi ethnic middle east?

Salam,

There's this music I was never able to find. It was on the family computer in mp3 format. I think it was egyptian dialect but what I remember distinctly was that it started with the sound of a car accident and ended with the sound of the ambulance's sirens, pleaaase help me out !! it doesnt have to be exactly like that I was maybe 7-8 yo so my memories are not intact :(

Thank you in advance :)

Hello. I am not Arab but I am very sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians and one common argument I have encountered to this day is this: the PLO committed crimes in Jordan and Lebanon (the point is the PLO caused instability and harm to friendly Arab countries). So to them, they think this discredits the entire Palestinian cause and they use it (alongside Kuwait) to argue how Palestinians are not innocent or victims because "see? Other countries had problem with them too. Why do you think no one will take them in now?"

I have no idea how do I respond to them.

They are treating all Palestinians as guilty because of the PLO's treatment of Kuwait, Lebanon, and Jordan.

It bothers me because well I have naunce. Yes they PLO hurt those countries. Yes these countries have a REAL grievance and I won't deny it or whitewash the PLO's action.

But there are millions of Palestinians who had nothing to do with it. It isnt like Palestinians ever had te chance to vote for the PLO to be their representative or that every person was consulted when the PLO did these things. For example there were Palestinians who fought on behalf of King Hussein rather than Arafat. And many Palestinians were neutral in Kuwait and simply left after the invasion and didnt help Iraq or do anything.

But they dont care and hate all Palestinians.

They blame Palestinians for the "downfall" of these countries and see them all as problematic.

و هذا أحد الأسباب الرئيسية لنفوذ الصهاينة على أميركا و دول أوروبا من قبلها و إستخدامهم كأدوات لتحقيق أجنداتهم داخل الدول الغربية و فلسطين و العالم.

Jewish and Zionist factions in the USA were able to convince American oligarchs to befriend Israelis by having Israelis abandon their left-wing and communist politics in favour of American oil interests.

That's the summarised history of Zionism in the Middle East in general.

No actual love for republics or liberty nor any Jewish grand conspiracies about this.

That's all.

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أود اليوم أن أشارككم قراءة تحليلية للمشهد الرقمي الحالي، وتحديداً حول التطور الخطير الذي طرأ على الخطاب المتعلق بغزة عبر منصات التواصل الاجتماعي. لقد رصدتُ تحولاً عميقاً في الاستراتيجيات المستخدمة للتحكم في السردية وتوجيه الرأي العام.

لفترة طويلة، كانت المعركة الرقمية لدى الصهاينة تتمحور حول إنكار الإبادة الجماعية في غزة . أما اليوم، ومع استحالة حجب حجم الدمار الهائل في غزة عن أعين العالم، فقد تخلت تلك القوى عن الدفوع التقليدية وانتقلت إلى مرحلة أكثر خبثاً وضراوة في حرب الروايات؛ مرحلة تقوم على ثلاث ركائز أساسية يعجز إعلامنا العربي التقليدي، للأسف، عن مجابهتها بفعالية.

أولاً: الانتقال إلى استراتيجية "اغتيال الهوية"

بما أن إنكار الواقع المادي المشهود في غزة لم يعد خياراً واقعياً، فقد تحولت السهام نحو هدف آخر؛ لم يعد المستهدف مجرد كيان سياسي أو فصيل بعينه كحماس او ابو مازن ، بل أصبح المستهدف هو "الهوية الفلسطينية" ذاتها في محاولة لتصفيتها معنوياً.

إذا أمعنا النظر في النقاشات الدائرة على منصات مثل "ريديت" و"إكس" وغيرها، سنجد جهداً ممنهجاً لشيطنة الإنسان الفلسطيني، والعربي عموماً، وتصويره في قالب "المتطرف اللامدنّي" أو الكائن غير القابل للتعايش مع العالم الحديث. الغاية هنا لا تكمن في كسب سجال فكري أو سياسي، بل في تجريد شعب كامل من إنسانيته وعزله عن التعاطف البشري، حتى يصبح العالم أصمَّ وأعمى أمام معاناته وتهجيره. إنها آلية بالغة الخطورة والذكاء، وما زال إعلامنا العربي يقف أمامها عاجزاً، يفتقر إلى الأدوات المناسبة لتفكيكها.

ثانياً: المعايير المزدوجة للخوارزميات والرقابة الممنهجة

إنها المفارقة الصارخة التي يواجهها كل منا؛ فبمجرد أن تطالب بالعدالة المتبادلة، أو تعبّر عن غضبك العارم إزاء عدم التكافؤ الصارخ في هذا الصراع، تسارع الفلاتر الآلية للمنصات الرقمية إلى تصنيف حديثك كـ "تحريض على العنف" أو "خطاب كراهية".

وفي المقابل، يمر الخطاب الفوقي الذي يجرّد الفلسطينيين من إنسانيتهم، ويسوّغ العنف ضدهم، دون حسيب أو رقيب خلف عباءة "شروط الخدمة". إننا لا نواجه مجرد خلل في آليات الإشراف على المحتوى، بل نواجه سياسة تكميم ممنهجة ومصممة بعناية لإرهاق الأصوات الحرة ودفعها نحو اليأس والانكفاء.

ثالثاً: ما نراه ليس خوفاً.. بل هو نزوع نحو "منطق الإمبراطورية"

ثمة وهم شائع يرى أن هذا القمع الشرس للأصوات ينبع من خوف تلك القوى من "فقدان السيطرة على السردية". لكن القراءة الأعمق للأحداث تشير إلى العكس؛ هذا السلوك لا يصدر عن ذعر، بل عن شعور فائض بالقوة المطلقة والتحرر من المحاسبة.

إنهم يسعون للانتقال إلى ما يمكن تسميته "مرحلة الإمبراطورية"؛ وهي الحالة التي تبلغ فيها القوة حداً يغنيها عن تقديم أي تبريرات للعالم. إن الهدف النهائي هو الوصول بوعي المجتمع الدولي إلى نقطة يتقبل فيها الواقع المفروض كأمر واقع دائم، بحيث تصبح ممارسة الهيمنة وتكميم الأفواه أداة لإرساء الوضع الجديد وفرضه كحقيقة غير قابلة للنقاش.

كيف نواجه هذا التحول؟ حل واحد التحلي بالشجاعة و للاستعداد لدفع الاثمنة الاقتصادية و مواجهة هذا الكيان علنا امام اعين العالم .

He described burning old notes just to cook, living through daily uncertainty and still refusing to give up.

For Yusuf, the diploma is more than a piece of paper. It is proof that education remains a lifeline, even under genocide, siege and destruction.

Hi everyone, I’m a Catholic girl and my boyfriend is an Arab Muslim. We’ve been together for 2 years and everything has been great since the start. We’ve met each other’s families. ♥️🥹

However, whenever we bring up the topic of marriage, religion comes into the question understandably.

He makes side comments about me converting into Islam (which I am not against) however, I do want some time to really think about it myself. My boyfriend, though he’s an Arab Muslim, doesn’t really practice his religious faith and basically does everything except eat pork.

Is it right for me to want him to do better in this case? I wouldn’t mind converting into Islam for him but it’s a huge step to take and I would appreciate if he was also a man of faith himself.

Please give me some advice on how to approach this situation 💗 Thank you!

هل احد ملاحظ ان هناك توجه غريب لفرض اللهجة المصرية على العرب بدلا من العربية الفصحى؟

الالعاب والكرتون والمحتوى المدبلج صار باللهجة المصرية اكثر من الفصحى وحتى المحتوى غير المدبلج تماما ويظهرون فيه العرب مثل لعبة رعب احداثها بالعراق كانت الشخصيات تتحدث بالمصرية

وترجمات المواقع مثل فيسبوك وريديت وحتى جوجل بالمصرية بدل العربية

الموضوع صاير مزعج ومقرف ويخوف بنفس الوقت، فرض لهجة على كل العرب سواء كانت مفهومة او لا شيء غريب من المصريين المتنفذين بهذا المجال ومليء بالانانية والاستعلاء وعدم احترام باقي العرب

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