Chicago Arabesque
posted by Aiman Tulaimat at 10:19 PM
Al-watan or the homeland is a concept that has been troubling me for sometime. I was born in Syria and then moved with my parents to Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait to return to Syria where I lived for eight uninterrupted years. My mother is of Kurdish origin and my wife is an Arab Turkmen. I have been living for the past ten years in Chicago and now it feels like home. My troubles doubled. I have two homes, maybe more. I will blog about my homes, from my little family to the big world.
1 Comments:
I stumbled upon your blog few weeks ago, and I found it again.
I was deeply touched by it because it touched a raw nerve in me.
I am an Arab Syrian. In the past few years I became a stranger in my own country, but God gave me the opportunity of come to the USA to have some kind of an education and frankly I am at awe from what I am seeing, must astonishing to me is I discovered I am still attached to me Arab Identity, I have to admit I am not proud of it, but I can’t change My origin (unless I have one hundred million dollars then I can buy any identity I want?) America is a wonderful country, if you have the knowledge or the money to establish your self here, but if you don’t have a solid foundation, then living in the US will be no different than living in a third world country.
Anyway, I went for Chicago for a one day visit, it was wonderful, frankly it was love form the first glance, I don’t know? It had something in the air?
My advise to you stick with Chicago man.
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