14 Ways to Impress An Arab

posted on: Jul 8, 2016

By: Tamara Wong Azaiez/ Contributing Writer

Interested in the Arab American community? Here’s how to score kudos points with your in-laws, future relatives, neighbors, co-workers, and friends! Here are 14 playful ways to impress an Arab.

1.Drive a Mercedes

2.  Insist on paying the bill at all times

3. Repeat over and over: Wallah, Inshallah, and Mashallah

4. Scream at the top of your lungs when in public

5. When talking, never fail to use all the hand motions

6. Address your guests by Habibi and Habibti, especially if you have forgotten their name

7. Have 3 cell phones, always on loud, all the time

8  Never, ever be on time

9. Loudly discuss how many houses and items you own

10. Always bring up how many of your relatives are doctors

11. Act like you know the owners of all restaurants and their entire families

12. Accidentally flash all the hundred dollar bills in your wallet

13. Casually mention how much land you own

14. Walk them to their car and wave for long after they leave