That’s how legends are made… — “Hands up!” My bestie couldn’t leave the house without raising her arms like she was getting arrested. It was her dad’s duty to ensure that not one millimeter of her “seductive” 13-year-old stomach would show when she went outdoors. Having privacy or dignity was not offered to us, so it…

The 1619 Project is the seed America tried to bury, and now the branches have come to avenge their roots — Origin My dad has two birthdays — the one on his refugee documents and one he discovered in his fifties. Like most refugee kids born in 1948, his birthday is recorded as January 1 because in the years following the Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians became dispossessed and forced to flee their…

No amount of proof satisfies sexual abuse apologists — I know this look. I've encountered it many times. It's the look of a man bred to take and take and take — to take everything except accountability. On August 20, 2023, Spain's soccer chief, Luis Rubiales, planted an unsolicited kiss on football player Jenni Hermoso during the Women's World…

This article has been plumped and bamboozled for your pleasure. Reader discretion is advised. August 24, 2023, a pompous Trump descends from his jet. The world's sins echo as he carries them on his back. An aura of I'm doing this for you surrounds his hairs. The plane ride to…

Come On Morals, Let's Go Party My friends used to envy me whenever I had a screening for work. It was part of my job to watch movies before their release dates and develop their marketing strategies for MENA (Middle East and North Africa.)It sounds cool until the film is…

These are a few of my favorite things — Indictments no pardons and 18 scared kittens Bright colored mugshots and lengthy state prison Sweeping racketeering charges tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things Inspired by The Sound of Music | “My Favorite Things” Nada Chehade finally grew the ovaries to speak up. Now, this…

Behind every successful man is a woman fixing his coffee — You bet I laughed my ass off when a friend told me her husband thought he married a virgin. No, I don't feel bad. The dude was on his third marriage, frequented Vegas, and still craved inexperience for dessert. My friend had so much substance underneath her sheila, but her…

Being an Inceluencer is lucrative — "Have you seen the women in Dubai?!!!!" is a common phrase you'll hear among men living or visiting the city to allude to the copious amount of gorgeous and easy women available to them, or so they claim. Advertised as a sex haven for men while promoting traditional values simultaneously…

Divide and conquer — As I watch the death and destruction of my people on Live TV, I can’t imagine a future where Emancipation Day for Palestinians would be shared with the genocidal Zionist settler state that stole our livelihoods since 1947. Not without real accountability, at least. American exceptionalism tells you that…