Status Updates From A Second Look

I love this, it's so messy

ahhh my muslim hopless romantic heart is so full rn. rtc <3

I love that each of Elizza’s sisters have their own personality and perception on Deen. They come from the same walk of life yet live so differently and Hannah’s so real for that. I’m loving Elizza’s character so far, and I just know she would have been amazing friends with Salama Kassab from “Where The Lemon Trees Grow”

“They couldn’t quite put their finger on what exactly they disapproved of. They just had an instinct that this girl would give their son trouble if he was to marry her, and so they warned each other with subtle looks and some outright rude comments about her, to steer their sons away. They wanted someone haadiya for their sons.”

“Jana was loved by all the Libyan moms, especially the ones with eligible sons. Elizza was not such a big hit. She got along great with everyone, but the moms looked at her with a sort of disapproval.”
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Oh lol Elizza is me at this point. Though people only started comparing me and my sister long after she was married because we have a decade of age difference between us 😂.

“calling someone Umm or Abu anything was decidedly not a Libyan thing”
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Ohh! I would never have known! I thought it's a PAN Arab thing!

“It was often difficult for guests to sort out seating at a mixed wedding. Did the men go find seating with other men? Was each family supposed to find enough places for all their members at a table? Seating was rarely ever assigned at Arab mixed weddings, because you could never expect everyone who showed up to actually RSVP—or for those who RSVP’d to actually show up. Most times, you had to play it by ear.”