You know you're Arab when....

1. You reply with a NO when you’re asked if you would like more food, and it somehow translates into a YES
2.You refer to your dad's friends as Um-mo ..
3. Your mother has a minor disagreement with her (or your dad's) sister and doesn't talk to her for ten years.
4. You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think it's normal
5. You hug and kiss relatives you have never seen before in your life.
6. 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 and how we ‘”have life so easy”
7.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 Turkish coffee. ..
8.Your parents want you to become a doctor or engineer. ...
9. You still go back home and live with your parents after you graduate
10.Your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you to dinner even if you're in the next room....
11. You have at least thirty cousins. ...
12. You pity anyone who is not an Arab and think all other cultures are morally corrupt.
13. If you are 25 and unmarried, your parents make you feel that you are getting old.
14. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house....which leads to walk to the car and another hour of talk
15.You say bye 17 times on the phone. ...
16. Everyone is a family friend.
17. 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. ..
18. Your mother does everything for you if you are male...
19.You do all the housework and cooking if you are female...
20.Your relatives alone could populate a small city.....
21. 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.
22. You teach Westerners swearwords in Arabic
23. You watch the hell out of Arabic Satellite…or at least your parents do
24. You have to lie to your parents when you go out, even if ur doing nothing wrong.
25. Your mother calls you "Mama" and your father calls you "Baba"
26. You have someone tell you your fortune through your coffee cup.
27. You've seen a sword dance. At a wedding.

28. You've heard Amr Diab's "Habibi ya nour el ein" 764363 times in your life.
29. Your Mum has a creative nickname for you like "Natoosheh," or "Tuntooneh."
30. You play cards till the break of dawn.
31. At weddings it takes the bride and groom 4 hours to kiss all the guests
32. You use Arabic bread as a utensil in every meal
33. There is no such thing as quiet time
34. You get pissed when an Arab is displayed as a Terrorist in a Movie.
35. You pronounce your p's as b's ( bolice and airblane)
36. You get happy when your friends use Arabic (swears especially) in normal speach.
37. You go to Arabic Restaurants, tell the owners your Arab, and think you're going to get free food.
38. You fight over who's going to pay the bill and make the biggest scene!
39. Your family is over your house all the time
40. You put salt, olive oil and garlic in everything
41. You always say “walaw, 3ala rasi wa 3ayne” ….as if you doing a great deed for someone
42. The satellite dish cuts out and everyone is looking for a new code cos it wasn’t a legal one
43. When you wanted fast food you got a shawarma
44. When you're parents call you while you're out with friends screaming:
"You're Late! Its already 12:00am yalla come back home!!” when its actually only 11:00pm
45. If you're a girl, every time you make coffee when your aunts come over, they look at you and say "mashAllah!! sayri 3aroos"
46. Shisha is a social thing…you neva smoke it alone
47. You say “Yalla Bye” after every phone call
48. Your aunt asks when she can dance at your wedding
49. There is NO such thing as Israel. It is Palestine
50. Your standing next to the largest suitcases at the airport

51. You know that 3 people can fit on a motorcycle, 8 people can fit in a 5-seat car, and 20 people can fit in a 12-person minibus

52. You've been to a gold souk.

53. You smoke as if it were your last day on earth…and you only smoke Marlboro. (LOL)

54. Your middle name is your father's first name.

55. If you are male, you're named after your grandfather or great-grandfather.