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THE REAL WAR ON TERROR
"Don't let them fool you. The REAL War on Terror, my dear Arab sister, is the one inside your very own brain - it's the war between your conservative Arab and liberal American self. And at any given moment, completely out of the blue, your Arabic brain will sneak up on you and highjack your American brain...just like that!"
- Dalel B. Khalil
Tossed in a world of extreme contradictions...
What's a girl to do?!
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Do you come from a culture where women wear veils but your friends wear thongs?
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Does at least one of your parents speak English with an incomprehensible accent?
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Did your parents have an arranged marriage ... are they cousins?
About my latest book...
FROM VEILS TO THONGS: An Arab Chick's Survival Guide to Balancing One's Ethnic Identity in America
Arabic women deal with very serious issues that they often feel powerless to change. Western women are raised to be extremely assertive and even fight for her rights. One who is both Arab and American is very often, very confused. Her one foot is planted firmly in a traditional world whose cultural rules haven't changed in over 2,000 years. Her other foot is skidding on a thin piece of ice, the mega-liberal free-for-all, called America. And she is trying to balance walking on both.
This hilarious, lighthearted survival guide explains how to retain one's sanity in the battle of the ultimate culture clash, and offers hilarious explanations as to why we have absurd cultural rules such as arranged marriages.
Best of all, Westerners not only finally have a practical tool in which to better understand us and our wacky ways, but they too, can find answers. Like us, many Americans are struggling in this escalating socio-political cultural war. They are torn between conservatism and liberalism, tradition and progression, fidelity and fun, flats and pumps!
It's hard to balance it all. It really is.
Contrasting Eastern traditions with Western ideas, V2T explains how to function when one's conservative ethnic side is at war with their liberal Western side.
"The first word every Arabic girl learns is 'Mama.' The second word she learns is 'Baba.' The third word EVERY SINGLE Arabic girl learns is...and I don't care where she's from, or what religion she is, it doesn't matter if she's Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or atheist...The third word EVERY SINGLE Arabic girl learns is *'ibe.' - Dalel Khalil
(*ibe means shame, or dishonor)
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NEWS!
*NEW ARTICLE!
THE PITT MAGAZINE -SPRING 2010 ISSUE!http://www.zinio.com/reader.jsp?issue=416131042&o=ext&RF=PITT_SPRING10
* NEW ARTICLE!
PITTSBURGH MAGAZINE - JUNE 2010 ISSUE - ON SALE NOW!http://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Pittsburgh-Magazine/June-2010/-quotFrom-Veils-to-Thongs-quot-by/
*NEW ARAMICA ARTICLE OUT
(Tribute to My mother, Agnes Khalil, and all the mothers of the world!http://www.viewda.com/webpaper/aramica/ (New York edition, the one with Rima Fakih on the cover p. 32)
*Rima Fakih First Arab-American to win Miss USA! You go girl!
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/17/miss.usa.lebanese/index.html?hpt=C1
* SHADY AVE MAGAZINE AND PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER!http://www.shadyave.com/
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A78535
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