Tweet I meet them at NetRoots Nation conference, Famous Arabs in America used to be Entertainers, Belly Dancers, Dr. Hawass, Omar Shrief… Now Wael Ghunim, and Arab Bloggers At NetRoots Nation conference.
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MY FATHER WAS AN AVERAGE MAN, WITH A BRILLIANT MIND!
Tweet My dad was a small petite man, with an enormous nose and sharp piercing small eyes; he wasn’t a heavy-handed, intimidating father figure. However, he believed that to survive raising a large family of 10 on $7 monthly salary, you needed to be vigilant in reconstructing our family values.First, to put our house in order, he gave us character-based nicknames; our original Arabic names had been either those of a prophet or a servant of God, Muhammed, Ahmed, Abdelraffe, Aabdellnasser, Abdelaal, etc… didn’t reflect who we really are, so I became the Sursarah, the small cockroach; my mom was Walad, one of the boys; the skinny one was Feseekhah,…
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My dad was an average man..!!
Tweet The American people have seen enough Muslims behaving badly all over the world; Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, Ossam, Hezbollah, Zarqawi, Nidal and with the American administration illusive war on terrorism crusade; this list gets longer by the day. American people in a dire need for a reasonable Muslim, a man who taught me everything I needed to know about life, without ever sitting down and talking with me about life; Please meet my dad. My dad was a small petite man, with a big nose and sharp piercing small eyes; he wasn’t a heavy-handed, intimidating father figure. However, he believed that to survive raising a large family of 10 on…