We Arab women are constantly scrutinized by everyone from our inner circles to politicians. We’re either “oppressed” or over-sexualized; it’s an endless fight for equal recognition…
Author: Samar Marwan
Samar Marwan
Samar Marwan is the accidental product of Palestinian refugees living between the West and Middle East. The San Francisco native is hella serious about PCRF, LGBT rights, and burritos. Through her online writings she is intent on breaking taboos in the Arab world and liberating the white man from orientalism. Currently, she is planning a revolution against the hipsters. Send her your love (or hate) at HellaSamar or samar@scoopempire.com.
My mentor once told me there’s nothing that scares an Arab man more than a successful Arab woman who doesn’t have to depend on him. Since…
Here’s to the women who gave up their friends, family and the comfort of their homeland to travel to a land completely foreign to them. To…
To whom it may concern: Please stop. Eid dinner is not the time to bring up why I’m single. Christmas dinner is not the place to…
At a certain point in a relationship most women begin to wonder about the future, prompting them to start predicting when this special guy is going…
Nadia and Mariam are two average Arab girls one is Muslim and the other is Christian (which is which is irrelevant). Both women are young students,…
Harassed, stopped, questioned, threatened, arrested, tear gassed, shot. It’s just a series of events that occur during people’s encounters with police. Many Arabs who’ve experienced a…
As a kid, summers in Amman were the highlight of my year, and then I got older and realized that vacationing elsewhere was an option. Nonetheless,…
Israel has yet again found another fallacious loophole as an excuse to attack Gaza. Hamas launches crude weaponry and the international community doesn’t think twice to…
For all the Muslims who don’t live in the Middle East, fasting and partaking in the Holy Month usually confuses plenty people. Here are 15 things…