Top Ten Highlights at Diwan

A List of what I considered the Top Ten Highlights of the Diwan Conference:

10. The privilege of experiencing the beautiful early season blooming of Will and Ray Hanania's friendship. Yes, seeds were definitely planted and watered at Diwan.

9. The Periscope Penis

8. Amish Licorice-I hope you know what I mean by that *nudge* *wink* *jab* *salacious lip lick*

7. The director of the Arab American History Museum's public rebuking of Fayyad for cutting me off during the KABOBfest

6. A spontaneous group Debke during the Philistine's and the NOMADS performance

5. Meeting and connecting with the inspiring artists

4. Watching the KABOBmen mac on the inspiring artists

3. The purchase of Kibbe and Zaatar-centric shirts

2. The near fight that broke out between the too-cool-to-be-hip and too-hip-to-be-cool pseudo-rasta DJ at the conference afterparty and a testosterone-heavy member of our posse. In response to the unrecognizable and undance-able "sped-up" hip hop music, our friend, informed the DJah that his music was "wack." And, the DJ, an Arab man repping the rasta look, came back with, "Go back to Dearborn," implying our friend was a walking stereotype of a Dearborn Ay-rab (which caused our friend to accidentally spill his drink on said DJ's dashiki).

1. The KABOBfest presentation of course! We dutifully upheld one of the key missions outlined in the KABOBfest charter: people were cracking up and pissed off people all at the same time!

[Tarboush Tip: Nadeem]