You Know You An Arab When...

Most of these are true...I especially go through #17.
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1) You make Turkish coffee before leaving home to work, at the office, before lunch, after lunch, when having guests, before the guest leave, after the guests leave and before you go to bed.

2) When shops have a sale, they call your mom.

3) You still have stored suitcases of clothes that you used to wear when you were five.

4) People are never happy with what you achieved. If you graduated from high school, they say “Oqbal il shahada el jam3a.” And when you get that, they say “Oqbal el Aaroos or Aarees.” Then you get married, they say “Oqbal ma nafrah be awlad-kum.” And when you get that, they say “Oqbal ma tefrahu bi shahadat-hum,” etc…

5) Getting a visa to Europe or the USA is like having a baby. Everyone says “Mabrook!”

6) You learn how to beg the counter agent at the airport to allow your excess baggage...because your father taught you so.

7) You dream of holding a different passport.

8) When you fly back home, you find 20 people waiting for you at the airport...not to mention the zaghroota or yibbab!

9) When you move back home from university, you still have to argue with your parents about curfew, as if you never left home.

10) Everyone is a family friend.

11) You fight over the dinner bill.

12) You always give your friends a hello kiss on the cheek, even though you’ve seen them the night before, and everyday before that.

13) You teach Westerners how to speak Arabic by teaching them swear words first.

14) If you are 25 and unmarried, your parents make you feel that you are getting old.

15) You always say “Open the lights” instead of “Turn on the lights” and say “Get down from the car” instead of “Get out of the car”

16) You pronounce your P’s as B’s (bebsi, bolice)

17) You ask your dad a simple question, and he answers by telling the story of how he used to walk miles just to get to school.

18) Your dad swears at you with words that affect himself (Ibn kalb!!!)

19) You feel uncomfortable and giggle when you say the word “tease”

20) You smoke as if there is no tomorrow…especially Marlboro Lights

21) Your aunt is always asking when she can dance at your wedding.

22) Cell phones ‘R Us.

23) Music video clips are like German porn channels.