Thank you Yasmin joon for sharing this. It is infuriating to be put in a box, specially if you're a person of colour, more particularly if you come from the middle east, you're expected to never speak of joy, and whatever you do is always "tainted" with your background. And if you do talk about politics it often falls into the abyss of the endless political talk about the Middle East that people think is just something omnipresent.
I can't wait to order your new cookbook (is it available for pre-order yet in the US?)! And yes, society's tendency to tell us that we can only be one thing or the other is frustrating beyond measure. Because after all we contain multitudes, in the words of Whitman.
Thanks for sharing Yasmin. It seems these boxes oversimplify the complexity of humans and their multi-talents. Check out the publisher Just World Books. They are the publisher’s of Laila Haddad’s “Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything in Between”. I think they would appreciate your ideas and stories.
Thank you Yasmin joon for sharing this. It is infuriating to be put in a box, specially if you're a person of colour, more particularly if you come from the middle east, you're expected to never speak of joy, and whatever you do is always "tainted" with your background. And if you do talk about politics it often falls into the abyss of the endless political talk about the Middle East that people think is just something omnipresent.
Yes it’s so frustrating isn’t it? Being seen as one dimensional is also just not how life is. I thought you talked about that brilliantly in your book
P.S. I'm sure that book would've been very interesting. Maybe some other time.
I can't wait to order your new cookbook (is it available for pre-order yet in the US?)! And yes, society's tendency to tell us that we can only be one thing or the other is frustrating beyond measure. Because after all we contain multitudes, in the words of Whitman.
Thanks for sharing Yasmin. It seems these boxes oversimplify the complexity of humans and their multi-talents. Check out the publisher Just World Books. They are the publisher’s of Laila Haddad’s “Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything in Between”. I think they would appreciate your ideas and stories.