Zeina: Living the American Dream and Other Lebanese Delusions, (Paperback)

This millennial immigrant's life is a satirical game of tug-of-war between the delusion of the "American Dream" and the deeply rooted Lebanese reality.

Zeina bounces back to California, with her baggage of cultural confusions and a knack for landing in awkward predicaments. Welcome to her world - where every day is a misadventure in balancing East and West, tradition and modernity, manyakeh wl jad¹. She flirts with the idea that life for hybrids like her should be lived on the border of the two worlds.

As she juggles the classic immigrant-parent drama, long-distance friendships, old flames, new unexpected romances, and the occasional existential crises on her rollercoaster of self-discovery, Zeina's writing her own rulebook on how to be a modern Arab-American - without losing her mind (or her heart).