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Arabic street artists hide criticisms of “Homeland’s” racist message on the show’s set...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/15/448982441/street-artists-hired-by-homeland-hide-accusations-of-shows-racism-in-plain-sight?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2040

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Realizing that you’ve wasted your life studying fusHa and no one actually speaks it...

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When it's nearly the beginning of the next semester and the ustaaz STILL hasn't told you how you did on the final imtahaan...

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I've gotten the nickname at work "Arabic girl" and so now people come up to me and ask me to say random words. I'm just like:

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When my roommate tells me I need to stop practicing the Arabic alphabet out loud:

How do you not enjoy hearing the lovely "غ"?

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When you finally get to study abroad in an Arabic speaking nation and upon arrival realize that no one understands you when you speak FSA...

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When classmates say they'll just cram the night before an imtahan:

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Whenever I discovered that my first Arabic class' syllabus wasn't written in English:

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All of my Arabic classmates are off studying abroad or taking Arabic over the summer. Me? I'm eating falafel, listening to Dalida, and praying that I don't forget everything I know over summer break.

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8am Arabic classes, in a nutshell:

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My feelings at the beginning of the semester, when the ustaaz says it's possible for all of us to make an A in the class:

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When the ustaaza asks if anyone else has any الأسئلة before we conclude class:

Yet, someone always has a question... Ugh.

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My strategy for studying for the upcoming, dreaded Arabic final:

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Whenever someone tries to convince me that learning "X" language is harder than Arabic:

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Whenever we have to do peer corrections on wajib, I have to pretend that I'm not offended by all of their corrections...

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When I show off to my non-Arabic speaking friends by texting them in Arabic:

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As soon as I stepped into my first Arabic class:

But hey, I stuck it out and it was 100% worth it.