#proudarab

No one ever wants to be the Arab - it's too old and too tragic, too mysterious and too exasperating, and too lonely for anyone but an actual Arab to put up with for very long. Essentially, it's an image problem. Ask anyone, Persian, Turks, even Lebanese and Egyptians - none of them want to be the Arab. They say things like, well, really we're Indo-Russian-Asian-European-Chaldeans, so in the end the only one who gets to be the Arab is the same little old Bedouin with his goats and his sheep and his poetry about his goats and his sheep, because he doesn't know that he's the Arab, and what he doesn't know won't hurt him.