How To Humiliate Arab Parents

A step-by-step guide to shaming your Arab parents by acts that might not bother 'other' parents; Hide and seek from a traumatized recollection; Mocking job-listings in Arabia; innovations in language learning that lend a modern sexy multi-media note to English learning from Turkey.

A child crying after a parental scolding. In the Arab world, parents are often sensitive to points that would not unsettle
a non-Arab family as much, mocks Kabobfest blogs.

Kabobfest [3]

"1. Avoid Marriage – As an Arab, your sole purpose in life is to make more Arabs. Don’t shame the family by failing to procreate. Make babies after the second date (the wedding). 2. Become a Vegetarian – Your mother spent all day and night rolling waraq and the thanks she gets is disrespect from her own child? Go eat at McDonald’s the rest of your life, ya kelb."

Sweetest Memories [4]

Arab Jobs!

"Every time I get one of those unsolicited email spam from the Arab world that has a "job" offering, I can't stop my self from laughing hysterically!"

An Arab Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) [5]

The beginning

"For as long as I remember, I am nearly eight years old; I am still a child who wants to go out and play with other children “hide and seek”, a game we always played. One of us puts his hand on his eyes and starts counting. The rest of the children hide and then he starts looking for them. But the “hide and seek” that I used to play is a bit different because when I used to hide I wished that I would stay hidden for my whole life. I used to wish that the ground would split up and swallow me so that no one would ever find me."

Jazarah [6]

Meet Turkey’s Subtitled Girl!

"This is a very cool project from Turkey, to push the public to register in English language courses the agency introduced a subtitled tourist, an LED screen was attached to the girl showing real-time translation to what she says in English into Turkish, then she would hand out a brochure about Inlingua – the languages center, really cool!"