My biggest culture shock when I moved to America from Qatar was not the Western culture, no it was the Arab culture in America. For some context i’m 20F Palestinian. I was born in Syria, though I never lived there, and I lived in Qatar for 11 years. I moved to America two years ago to Ohio for University. From what I noticed Arabs here are so much more conservative, judgmental, sly, and sneaky. Every Arab who I have talked to in the US who wasn’t born and raised here agrees with this, yet I have not seen anyone online mention it. I have a couple of theories of why they turned out this way. This was genuinely such a disappointment for me as I said I grew up in Qatar where you would think the arabs there would be more conservative but no, all my friends growing up had mixed friend groups and did things openly. But here every Arab I met hides behind a facade. What do you guys think?

This roster is of all current national team players for Arab countries competing in the AFC confederation, as well as “Israeli” Arabs

Starting 11:

GK: Nawaf Al-Aqidi 🇸🇦 Club: Al-Nassr
RB: Saud Abdulhamid 🇸🇦 Club: AS Roma
CB: Yazan Al-Arab 🇯🇴 Club: FC Seoul
CB: Hassan Tambakti 🇸🇦 Club: Al-Hilal
LB: Anan Khalaili 🇵🇸/Arab “Israeli” Club: Union Saint-Gilloise
DM: Musab Al-Juwayr 🇸🇦 Club: Al-Qadsiah
CM: Zidane Iqbal 🇮🇶 Club: FC Utrecht
RW: Mousa Al-Tamari 🇯🇴 Club: Stade Rennais
AM: Akram Afif 🇶🇦 Club: Al-Sadd
LW: Ali Jasim 🇮🇶 Club: Como
ST: Yazan Al-Naimat 🇯🇴 Club: Shabab Al Ahly

Substitute Bench:

GK: Meshaal Barsham 🇶🇦 Club: Al-Sadd
GK: Jalal Hassan 🇮🇶 Club: Al-Zawraa
CB: Aiham Ousou 🇸🇾 Club: Slavia Prague
CB: Merchas Doski 🇮🇶 Club: Viktoria Plzeň
RB: Hussein Ali 🇮🇶 Club: Pogoń Szczecin
LB: Sultan Al-Ghannam 🇸🇦 Club: Al-Nassr
DM: Mohammad Abu Fani 🇵🇸/Arab “Israeli” Club: Ferencváros
DM: Amir Al-Ammari 🇮🇶 Club: Cracovia
CM: Ibrahim Bayesh 🇮🇶 Club: Al-Dhafra
AM: Salem Al-Dawsari 🇸🇦 Club: Al-Hilal
LW: Harib Abdalla 🇦🇪 Club: Shabab Al Ahly
ST: Almoez Ali 🇶🇦 Club: Al-Duhail
ST: Aymen Hussein 🇮🇶 Club: Al-Karma
ST: Ali Al-Hamadi 🇮🇶 Club: Ipswich Town
ST: Firas Al-Buraikan 🇸🇦 Club: Al-Ahli

In my personal opinion I would rank this squad #3 in the AFC, and between #20-#28 globally.

Let me know what you guys think about this lineup, and if you would make any changes to it. Would this squad be able to preform well internationally on big stages like the World Cup and the AFC Asian Cup? And what would you rank this team internationally?

Hi just a disclaimer I love Arabs, not here to ragebait

I was a conversation the other day about ethnic people residents abroad and their personalities

I’m in uk btw

They were saying Arabs are fearless
There so fearless they’ll roam around driving high

Main point they said Arabs are so fearless they aren’t scared of police and of law?

Is this true? I thought Arabs have conservative social pressure.

I sadly havnt spend enough time with Arabs to know the truth

All comments appreciated 💝 (p.s. please try to right in English I don’t know Arabic)

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Hello everyone!

I'm a graphic design student looking to collaborate with an Arab or Palestinian writer on my final school portfolio project, which will be presented in November.
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A short introduction about yourself
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