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The Match-making Chronicles: Race/Ethnicity/Nationality of Ideal Husband

When I addressed the issue to my father, as in what qualities he expected an ideal mate of my to have, he said: “All he has to be is Muslim and very ambitious…and passive, because you are a very dominant personality. You can’t have two dominants. It’s like electricity. You need a negative and a [...]

Match-making Chronicles: You know you are part of a hardcore Arab family…

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 [...]

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