2 Arab Girls: Recent Episodes
Gheed Saeed and Fatima Jaafar
Hey Arab Girl! Leave your shoes at the door and have a seat... you're in good company. This is 2 Arab Girls.
We're your big sisters, your friends, your confidantes...and in this space, nothing is 3ib. Let's talk about growing up Arab in America and how it shapes our identity, culture, dating and everything in between.
We're Gheed and Fatima. Welcome to 2 Arab Girls.
Once upon a time, Gheed was a TikTok star. It had its ups and downs. But the big up is the friendships she formed. On this episode of 2 Arab Girls, we invite Sarah (aka @labn.eh on TikTok) to chat her dating horror stories. You're going to want to sit down for this episode.
It's been a minute - we play catch-up & chat growing up in California versus Michigan, and how it ultimately impacted our world view.
In this week's episode, we're chaotic. Chaos energy only. We go from discussing current events (dismall, btw), to reading our DMs for a laugh. Because life is about balance. Send us your cheeky DMs. Stay safe out there. Xoxo.
Stop acting brand new - we know you love to chat dating. Naturally, we're going to lean into this topic and give the people what they want. The question on our mind this episode: when is the right time to introduce your family to your signifcant other? Is there a right time? Let's chat about it.
This episode is not a review of the cultural moment that is How I Met Your Father... although we'll always have a special place in our hearts for Hilary Duff. Whether your momma has told you, or your khalto spilled the tea, our parents have some pretty unique "meet cutes." If your parents are cousins... you're not alone. Let's stop lying about it! Our generation may not be trolling for a spouse at the family reunion but that doesn't mean we can't talk about the awkardness that is "How I Met Your Baba."
Remember that time entire populations of Black and Brown folk were called "uncivilized" on international TV? Oh right, that was just last week. In this episode, Gheed and Fatima try to unpack their collective trauma around the crisis in Ukraine. Take off your outside shoes and switch out of your subway pants, because this one is heavy.
Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers...Oh my! They've all got one thing in common, their parents aren't disappointed in them. As for the rest of us, the losers, the outcasts, the financially unstable; we're still figuring it out. Lucky for us, we've managed to find our own success and our parents a pretty freaking proud. In this episode, we dish about what success looks like in an Arab household and how the definition is evolving.
Warning: We're not entirely sure where this episode went. Sometimes you just need to chat with your girlfriends. This is your reminder to call your bestie!
Friend of the Pod Adreanna Ekdawy chats how her parents marriage helped her prioritize her wants and needs in a relationship. While her parents are both Egyptian, her Dad was born and raised in Egypt for the majority of his young adult life, and her Mom was raised halfway across the World in California. Despite their totally different upbringings, they make it work, and Adreanna takes us on a hilarious journey of their relationship timeline.
Our favorite white girl, Madisen Theobald, joins the 2 Arab Girls podcast and we play a game of compare and contrast. Growing up Arab is, arguably, a totally different experience from growing up White. We chat our differences, and our similarities, here on 2 Arab Girls.
Bumble, Hinge, Muzmatch, Minder, we've seen it all. And if you're a Single Arab Female, you've likely encountered one or two apps on this list. On this episode, we chat dating apps and matchmaking services. Tread lightly.
Surprise folks - we're gearing up for something totally different. Gheed got tired of putting the "Single" in "Single Arab Female," so rather than getting married like her mom would LOVE for her to do (sorry, Mom), she enlisted the help of Fatima, a Lebanese-American woman with an equal amount of opinions on the patriarchy. Leave your shoes at the door and have a seat... you're in good company. This is 2 Arab Girls.
We're your big sisters, your friends, your confidantes and in this space, nothing is 3ib. Let's talk about growing up Arab in America and how it shapes our identity, culture, dating and everything in between.
We're Gheed and Fatima. Welcome to 2 Arab Girls.
Danielle is Vietnamese, Gheed is Iraqi. Two cultures, two different backgrounds, but a whole lot of the same. We chat about how growing up in two totally different households doesn't really make us that much different after all.
Najwa Zebian is many things - a poet, writer, social media superstar, and fellow Single Arab Female. With 4 books under her belt, Najwa is booked and BUSY, but lucky for us, she took the time to chat about everything under the sun: writing, the weight of being an Arab women in Western society, the hijab, and more.
Learn more about Najwa at https://najwazebian.com/, and find her on Instagram @najwazebian.
By now, you've all seen or heard of the unsettling meme: "Your parents didn't immigrate to a foreign country so you could cry over a dude named Danny." Or something like that, you get the picture. Dating outside the culture is still considered gasp wrong in our culture. We sit down with four women who've been there, done that, to get their perspective on dating outside the culture.
Arab men: it's a love/hate relationship if we've ever seen one. The Battle of the Sexes is real in the Arab community, and we're putting 2 Arab men in the hot seat. In this episode, we're chatting with Jalal and Saleh, two Arab men with two perspectives that could not be more different. Disclaimer: no Arab men were harmed in the making of this episode, and we won't pretend Jalal and Saleh are representative of Arab men in America. Tune in for a fun listen!
The Empowered Arab Sisterhood (Epsilon Alpha Sigma, Inc.) is the first and ONLY Arab Sorority in the Nation. We sit down for a heart to heart with the founder of the organization, Rula Othman. She dishes on the importance of building a safe space for Arab women to connect, reflect and spill our embarassing daughters of immigrants stories (we know you're familiar).
Learn more about the Empowered Arab Sisterhood at http://www.epsilonalphasigma.org/about-us.html and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/epsilonalphasigmainc/ and see how you too can join the sisterhood!
Elle Woods, eat your heart out.