When a visiting Halabi friend of a 50 something, unmarried, old maid aunt of yours has made it her mission to find her friend’s 25 year-old niece (me), who she has never met, a husband.
When I mentioned this last point to a friend, that besides my obvious rejections to this “friend”‘s self-appointment as my surrogate matchmaker, on a logical basis, that I was incredulous that a woman I had never met would find me the perfect mate, he responded with this:
“Well, I mean, there are some universals in matchmaking”
Maybe this is the “universal” he was talking about:
BTW: when I searched “Match making syria” in google images, why did the cover of Barry Rubin’s “The Truth About Syria” show up on the first page of the search????
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Nah, hardcore would me you’d be married with children by now. Consider yourself lucky.
Posted by It could be worse... | January 16, 2008, 9:46 amDon’t worry, if you’re like 23 – 24, you’ve got at least another year before your market expiration date passes. After that you’ll need your aunt to step in & find you a 40 year old divorced dude with 3 kids.
Posted by rafiq | January 16, 2008, 10:54 amActually, I am 25-so according to you, I should be shopping around for the practically un-remarriable social rejects at this point.
But I don’t believe in this dead-end fate. There is still hope in my books. I am simply banking on the fact that Suheir Hammad is somewhere in her mid-thirties and still highly desirable to 90 percent of Arab men from 18-45 demographic.
I know I’m not a world famous, a slender, statuesque Palestinian goddess poet who is a Def Poetry staple-BUT I’m still banking on this special, defies all odds and mathmatical match-making formula findings, case.
Posted by Maytha | January 16, 2008, 11:06 amSo are you limiting yourself to Arab men? Hope not. Never know what package your soul mate will come in.
Posted by Sarah | January 16, 2008, 11:25 amhahaha-no im not. Actually Suheir’s pull is pretty universal. And in fashioning my life to mimick her’s “single white female”-style, I have expanded my selection pool.
Posted by Maytha | January 16, 2008, 11:29 amdon’t get me started May! I have enough horror stories to turn the match-making chronicles into a 1,000-page encyclopedia.
(sigh)
Posted by Hanaan | January 16, 2008, 12:38 pmI miss Nadeem,
This is when he would have proposed a KABOBfest match-making service.
Posted by Fayyad | January 16, 2008, 1:19 pmplease choose me, Maytha
Posted by Mehammed "Abou" Mack | January 16, 2008, 1:58 pmplease choose me, Maytha
Posted by Mehammed "Abou" Mack | January 16, 2008, 1:58 pmHanaan-that’s why it’s the Chronicles-feel free to add-I already have 3 saved drafts. And I started this yesterday!
Posted by Maytha | January 16, 2008, 2:14 pmSuheir Hammad is freakin AMAZING. I read an article about her when I lived in Amman, and then bought ZaatarDiva.. awesome collection of poetry
Posted by ally | January 16, 2008, 4:07 pm25 and unmarried!? Be happy you aren’t Chinese!
I don’t know about any Syrian matchmaking thing or why Barry Rubin’s book came up, but this is a pretty good matchmaking website I heard about:
Muslim Marriage & Matrimonial
Here’s a list of the results on guys in Syria between 30 and 35 years of age.
http://preview.qiran.com/client/searchresults.asp?cboGender=M&cbo;_PostBy=&cbo;_Marital_Status=&kids;=&cboAge;=30-35&Country;=SY&province;=&cboReligion;=ðnicity;=&language;=&cboValues;=&disabilities;=&cbo;_Profile_Education=&cboOccupation;=&cbo;_Profile_Height=&cbo;_Complexion=&cbo;_Diet=&cbo;_BodyType=&Country;_Origin=&Country;_Birth=&sort;_by=Creation_Date&chkphotos;=1&Mode;=A
Maybe I can send the link to your Aunt’s and then she can occupy herself contacting all the prospects to weed out the losers for a while, eh? At least then she’d be out of your hair.
Posted by programmer craig | January 16, 2008, 5:44 pmawwww the softer side of craig.
Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008, 7:54 pmAnon 7:54: I know, cute, huh?
I like all the pictures of women which they think are attractive to “Muslim” men. There’s the girl with 10 pounds of makeup and just as much plastic surgery on her face and then there’s the homely hijabi. I’m sure that site is really well geared toward the perfect man.
Posted by Safiyyah | January 16, 2008, 8:00 pmI like all the pictures of women which they think are attractive to “Muslim” men.
There are a lot of non-Muslims using that website. There’s a Syrian Christian guy on the first page of the link I put up, for instance.
There’s the girl with 10 pounds of makeup and just as much plastic surgery on her face and then there’s the homely hijabi. I’m sure that site is really well geared toward the perfect man.
I dunno, Safiyyah. Most the women on that site look pretty “average” to me. What’s your opinion of the men? And some of the hijabi’s look hot, but maybe that’s just me being perverse
Posted by programmer craig | January 16, 2008, 8:22 pmI think Barry Rubin wants to match Syria with American/Israeli bombs…
Posted by Will | January 18, 2008, 7:21 amA match made in neo-con heaven!
Posted by Maytha | January 18, 2008, 10:25 am