You Know You're Palestinian When……
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1. You have an aunt, uncle, sister, cousin and brother in-law all named Jihad.
3. Hummos isn't only for Breakfast.
4. Your Father has a collection of Camel, Newport and Marlboro t-shirts that all have never been worn.
5. Your first arabic curse was "7MAR WA7D ...YA KALB !! "
7. Your idea of a family outing includes your fathers argeelah and seeing your mom's sister..
8. 10:30 pm is always a good time to visit unannounced.
9.. Your mother knows where every Zatoon tree, Loowz tree, Teen tree, and Wara2 Dawali bush is within a 30 mile radius of your house.
10. Inshallah means "No."
11. "Istewbid amercani" is a refrence to your friends your parents don't like you bringing to the house
12. While normal families go to amusement parks and on picnics your family takes trips to the wara2 dawali fields to la2it till sundown.
13. Kosher is a bad word in your house and your dad will break out the I2'shot if he hears you saying it.
14. The cashiers at Safeway all know your mom and aunts by first name cause they are the ladies that come buy all the meat when its on sale for 99 cents a pound.
15. The Wall Paper in your family room is of the Dome of the rock.
16. Your father's argeelah is the final member of your family, just more important.
17. You know how to make maklooba by the age of 11. You can also identify Khoobaza, Loofita, and I7wera.
18. When you leave the state, you always pack half of the unidentifiable green things in your freezer, bizzer, clothes that your children out grew to give away, and arabic coffee.
19. Your mother claims she doesn't have an accent.
20. At least one person in your immediate family is married to a first cousin.
22. 2ahwa 3arabiya is to our mothers as Caramel Frapachinos are to us.
23. You add "ing" to all of your verbs. Example: She is Salieing, want her to call you back? Are you Sooming today? I'm Ijlieing the dishes, I'll come over when I'm done.
25. You learned how to cuss in Arabic from all your cousins back home.
26. You have either an uncle, cousins or grandparents in Brooklyn..
27. When at the beach, instead of looking for seashells, your children pick up rocks to see how far they can throw them into the ocean as if they were throwing rocks at the "yahood" (israelis)
28.Maramiyah will cure everything, ie: cold, heart burn, cancer, chapped lips, dandruff.
29. 27 jars of hand picked, hand crushed, and hand pickeled olives are on the shelves of your garage.
30. You have two refrigerators.
31. Your clocks are set 20 minutes ahead to trick yourself every morning. It's been working for the past 5 years.
32. Despite setting your clock ahead, you still arrive 45 minutes late.
33. If your kids can't sleep, they're probably online.
34. You have 37 nieces and nephews and they all somehow show up when you just finished cleaning.
36. You learned to speak Arabic the same way your mom learned to speak English... through soap operas.
45.When you call your cousin, you can hear the same TV show your parents are watching in the background.
46. Your mom yells on the phone like she is talking to the "Blad" when she is actually only talking to your Aunt down the street.
47. Your mother constantly warns you that your children will come out 10 times worse than you are. Immediately after you hear her say to herself "Stakhfurallah, I can't believe I was that bad."
48. Four Arab families live in your Neighborhood , You're related to them all.
50.There are 5 cars in the drive way with only 2 licensed drivers in the house.
51. Your brother, his wife, and 5 kids still live with you..
52. You say "FOB", "BOATER" and "AY-RAB" in front of your parents without fearing getting Backhanded
53. Every lady older than your mom is called "khalto" or "3amto"
54. A good childhood memory is the time Mama took you inside of the house before she beat you with her "7afay" instead of doing it in front of the neighbors like usual.
55. Your Parents have gave at least 5 of your American Friends a Quran and told them don't come back to my house until you're finished reading it.
56. A visa is not a credit card. ...
57. You refer to your dad's friends as Amoo.
58. You have an endless supply of pistachios, dates, and pumpkin seeds...
59. Your parents say you're becoming Americanized every time you get into trouble.
60.You curse at your teachers or strangers in Arabic.....
61.You can spot another Palestinian a mile away and they have spotted you too because they keep staring. ..
62. After a family meal, the women fight to death over who should wash the dishes while the men sit on their behinds and discuss politics, waiting for their tea. ..
63.Your parents want you to become a doctor or an engineer. ...
64. You use your forehead and eyebrows to point something out...
65. Your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you to dinner even if you're in the next room....
66. You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think it's normal.
67. You are standing next to the largest suitcases at the Airport.
68. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house....
69.You say bye 17 times on the phone. ...
70. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover they know one of your uncles back home. ...
71. Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their lungs when making long distance calls...
72.Your mother does everything for you if you are a guy
73.You do all the housework and cooking if you are a girl.
74. Your relatives alone could populate a small city
75. You still come back home to live with your parents after you graduate.
76. You always say "open the light" instead of "turn the light on".
77. Your parents drink 6 cups of tea a day...
78. You've had a shoe thrown at you by your mother
79. You have 500, 000, 000 cousins
80. Your father swears at you with words that effect himself
81. You refer to another Palestinian as "bro" or "sis"
82. Your family is over your house all the time
83. There is no such thing as quiet time
84. Going to the mosque is a fashion show
85. And a free brunch
86.You've seen a belly dancer at least once in your life
87.You have at least 4 kids in your family
88. You gossip about your own family...with members of your own family
89. You use the mosque as a social ground to meet potential wives/husbands
90. You get really happy and call the whole family to the room when there is a special or documentary on Palestinian or anything Arab related on CNN
91. You get pissed when an Arab is portrayed as a terrorist in a movie
92. You go to an Arabic restaurant, tell the owner you're a Palestinian , and get free food.
93. Your middle name is your father's first name
94. You have a difficult Arabic name to pronounce so you come up with an Americanized version of it like "Sam" or "Mike".
95. You own and/or play a Tableh or Darbakeh
96. You play cards till the break of dawn
97. You know what happens when you eat too much Moujadra, Hummous, Tabuli, and Kibbeh
98. Your favorite food is wara2 3enab
99. Your parents drink Turkish coffee like 20 million times a day
100. You can't have a meal without Arabic bread or Rice.
101. All the grocery stores and gas stations in your city are owned by relatives
102. You have fruit trees in your backyard and when they are in season you live on them
103. You have someone tell you your fortune through your coffee cup
104. You would never call it Pita Bread
105. You use Arabic bread as a utensil
106. You've heard Amr Diab's "Ya nour el ein" 764363 times in your life
107. You know what the debki, a hafli, and a derrbakki is/are
108. Your aunt asks you when she is going to be able to dance at your wedding
109. Your parents say "estob" instead of "stop"
110. You teach your American friends Arabic words (mostly bad ones) and get happy when they use them in normal conversations
111. You feel proud when someone famous or a celebrity has any Arabic blood in them
112. You can't help but laugh when you hear the word "TEASE"
113. At least 1 conversation a day is about being Palestinian
114. You have at least 1 picture/object resembling Al Aqsa(dome of the rock) in your house
115. Wearing a leather jacket during the summer is cool
116. Your parents own or have owned a Lexus, BMW, or Mercedes
117. People just don't understand that carbonated yogurt is really, really good
118. You've been to at least one Arabic concert
119....and have danced so much there you must've lost more than five pounds
120. Your favorite sport is soccer
121. You have the Arabic satellite
122. Your "goodbyes" take an hour
123. You hug and kiss relatives you've never met
124. Your driving in your car and spot another Palestinian you know , you stop in the middle of the street , put your head out the window and scream "WEINAK YA ZALAME?? LESIH MA BENSHOOFAKSH??"
125. You have to constantly remind your American friends to take off their shoes when they enter your house.
126. You have told your kid not to walk the floor barefoot or they'll catch a cold.
127. You're walking out of customs with your trolley at the airport and you see at least twenty-five members of your family who have come to pick you up.
128. You go back to your parents' country and people treat you like a member of...the royal family.
129. Your parents yell at you no matter where you are, who you're with you, or who' around.
130. You either tip 2% or 50% but never 15%.
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1. You have an aunt, uncle, sister, cousin and brother in-law all named Jihad.
3. Hummos isn't only for Breakfast.
4. Your Father has a collection of Camel, Newport and Marlboro t-shirts that all have never been worn.
5. Your first arabic curse was "7MAR WA7D ...YA KALB !! "
7. Your idea of a family outing includes your fathers argeelah and seeing your mom's sister..
8. 10:30 pm is always a good time to visit unannounced.
9.. Your mother knows where every Zatoon tree, Loowz tree, Teen tree, and Wara2 Dawali bush is within a 30 mile radius of your house.
10. Inshallah means "No."
11. "Istewbid amercani" is a refrence to your friends your parents don't like you bringing to the house
12. While normal families go to amusement parks and on picnics your family takes trips to the wara2 dawali fields to la2it till sundown.
13. Kosher is a bad word in your house and your dad will break out the I2'shot if he hears you saying it.
14. The cashiers at Safeway all know your mom and aunts by first name cause they are the ladies that come buy all the meat when its on sale for 99 cents a pound.
15. The Wall Paper in your family room is of the Dome of the rock.
16. Your father's argeelah is the final member of your family, just more important.
17. You know how to make maklooba by the age of 11. You can also identify Khoobaza, Loofita, and I7wera.
18. When you leave the state, you always pack half of the unidentifiable green things in your freezer, bizzer, clothes that your children out grew to give away, and arabic coffee.
19. Your mother claims she doesn't have an accent.
20. At least one person in your immediate family is married to a first cousin.
22. 2ahwa 3arabiya is to our mothers as Caramel Frapachinos are to us.
23. You add "ing" to all of your verbs. Example: She is Salieing, want her to call you back? Are you Sooming today? I'm Ijlieing the dishes, I'll come over when I'm done.
25. You learned how to cuss in Arabic from all your cousins back home.
26. You have either an uncle, cousins or grandparents in Brooklyn..
27. When at the beach, instead of looking for seashells, your children pick up rocks to see how far they can throw them into the ocean as if they were throwing rocks at the "yahood" (israelis)
28.Maramiyah will cure everything, ie: cold, heart burn, cancer, chapped lips, dandruff.
29. 27 jars of hand picked, hand crushed, and hand pickeled olives are on the shelves of your garage.
30. You have two refrigerators.
31. Your clocks are set 20 minutes ahead to trick yourself every morning. It's been working for the past 5 years.
32. Despite setting your clock ahead, you still arrive 45 minutes late.
33. If your kids can't sleep, they're probably online.
34. You have 37 nieces and nephews and they all somehow show up when you just finished cleaning.
36. You learned to speak Arabic the same way your mom learned to speak English... through soap operas.
45.When you call your cousin, you can hear the same TV show your parents are watching in the background.
46. Your mom yells on the phone like she is talking to the "Blad" when she is actually only talking to your Aunt down the street.
47. Your mother constantly warns you that your children will come out 10 times worse than you are. Immediately after you hear her say to herself "Stakhfurallah, I can't believe I was that bad."
48. Four Arab families live in your Neighborhood , You're related to them all.
50.There are 5 cars in the drive way with only 2 licensed drivers in the house.
51. Your brother, his wife, and 5 kids still live with you..
52. You say "FOB", "BOATER" and "AY-RAB" in front of your parents without fearing getting Backhanded
53. Every lady older than your mom is called "khalto" or "3amto"
54. A good childhood memory is the time Mama took you inside of the house before she beat you with her "7afay" instead of doing it in front of the neighbors like usual.
55. Your Parents have gave at least 5 of your American Friends a Quran and told them don't come back to my house until you're finished reading it.
56. A visa is not a credit card. ...
57. You refer to your dad's friends as Amoo.
58. You have an endless supply of pistachios, dates, and pumpkin seeds...
59. Your parents say you're becoming Americanized every time you get into trouble.
60.You curse at your teachers or strangers in Arabic.....
61.You can spot another Palestinian a mile away and they have spotted you too because they keep staring. ..
62. After a family meal, the women fight to death over who should wash the dishes while the men sit on their behinds and discuss politics, waiting for their tea. ..
63.Your parents want you to become a doctor or an engineer. ...
64. You use your forehead and eyebrows to point something out...
65. Your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you to dinner even if you're in the next room....
66. You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think it's normal.
67. You are standing next to the largest suitcases at the Airport.
68. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house....
69.You say bye 17 times on the phone. ...
70. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover they know one of your uncles back home. ...
71. Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their lungs when making long distance calls...
72.Your mother does everything for you if you are a guy
73.You do all the housework and cooking if you are a girl.
74. Your relatives alone could populate a small city
75. You still come back home to live with your parents after you graduate.
76. You always say "open the light" instead of "turn the light on".
77. Your parents drink 6 cups of tea a day...
78. You've had a shoe thrown at you by your mother
79. You have 500, 000, 000 cousins
80. Your father swears at you with words that effect himself
81. You refer to another Palestinian as "bro" or "sis"
82. Your family is over your house all the time
83. There is no such thing as quiet time
84. Going to the mosque is a fashion show
85. And a free brunch
86.You've seen a belly dancer at least once in your life
87.You have at least 4 kids in your family
88. You gossip about your own family...with members of your own family
89. You use the mosque as a social ground to meet potential wives/husbands
90. You get really happy and call the whole family to the room when there is a special or documentary on Palestinian or anything Arab related on CNN
91. You get pissed when an Arab is portrayed as a terrorist in a movie
92. You go to an Arabic restaurant, tell the owner you're a Palestinian , and get free food.
93. Your middle name is your father's first name
94. You have a difficult Arabic name to pronounce so you come up with an Americanized version of it like "Sam" or "Mike".
95. You own and/or play a Tableh or Darbakeh
96. You play cards till the break of dawn
97. You know what happens when you eat too much Moujadra, Hummous, Tabuli, and Kibbeh
98. Your favorite food is wara2 3enab
99. Your parents drink Turkish coffee like 20 million times a day
100. You can't have a meal without Arabic bread or Rice.
101. All the grocery stores and gas stations in your city are owned by relatives
102. You have fruit trees in your backyard and when they are in season you live on them
103. You have someone tell you your fortune through your coffee cup
104. You would never call it Pita Bread
105. You use Arabic bread as a utensil
106. You've heard Amr Diab's "Ya nour el ein" 764363 times in your life
107. You know what the debki, a hafli, and a derrbakki is/are
108. Your aunt asks you when she is going to be able to dance at your wedding
109. Your parents say "estob" instead of "stop"
110. You teach your American friends Arabic words (mostly bad ones) and get happy when they use them in normal conversations
111. You feel proud when someone famous or a celebrity has any Arabic blood in them
112. You can't help but laugh when you hear the word "TEASE"
113. At least 1 conversation a day is about being Palestinian
114. You have at least 1 picture/object resembling Al Aqsa(dome of the rock) in your house
115. Wearing a leather jacket during the summer is cool
116. Your parents own or have owned a Lexus, BMW, or Mercedes
117. People just don't understand that carbonated yogurt is really, really good
118. You've been to at least one Arabic concert
119....and have danced so much there you must've lost more than five pounds
120. Your favorite sport is soccer
121. You have the Arabic satellite
122. Your "goodbyes" take an hour
123. You hug and kiss relatives you've never met
124. Your driving in your car and spot another Palestinian you know , you stop in the middle of the street , put your head out the window and scream "WEINAK YA ZALAME?? LESIH MA BENSHOOFAKSH??"
125. You have to constantly remind your American friends to take off their shoes when they enter your house.
126. You have told your kid not to walk the floor barefoot or they'll catch a cold.
127. You're walking out of customs with your trolley at the airport and you see at least twenty-five members of your family who have come to pick you up.
128. You go back to your parents' country and people treat you like a member of...the royal family.
129. Your parents yell at you no matter where you are, who you're with you, or who' around.
130. You either tip 2% or 50% but never 15%.
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