While we all know full well that a mother remains a mother through thick and thin and would be hard-pressed to abandon her son or daughter even in the most testing or ‘shameful’, even criminal, of circumstances... well we at Al Bawaba think that some of these mamas should be disappointed, if not positively ashamed, of their spawn.
For the 'naughty' offspring on our short-list of shame, apparently it’s a bit much to ask that they turn out every mom’s dream of being decent upstanding citizens and as a bonus give their ma's something to brag about at their lady morning coffees. Or failing that, that they at the very least do not put their mothers to shame.
Some Arab mothers, sadly, have been tested to the limits of motherhood’s bank of pride/ love/ forgiveness. Yes, we’re talking about the poor mothers of the likes of Phoenician porn star Mia Khalifa and blood-thirsty Syrian President Bashar al Assad.
So for the rest of you goody goody two-shoes kids of this more conservative quarter of the world that have not featured on our list of ‘bad’ eggs, a very Happy Mother’s Day to you and your own Arab or Middle Eastern Mamas!
