Heyyyy people who happen to love me enough to read my soon to be not so useless blog!
This is my first post ever so I guess its a chance to explain why my name is a problem. Ive also come to the conclusion that my whole being is a problem. When I lived Saudi Arabia, I was asked stuff like are you Jewish? and literally been asked to tell my parents they should have really not named me that. Living in Egypt were I supposedly would "belong" it doesnt slide either. So just meeting a stranger requires me to tell my life story, in the US the name wasnt much of a problem; it was more of a contradiction in the sense that I claimed to be Egyptian when I have an American name. Long story short- My name is Jessica Heba Ibrahim Abdelfattah Elsayed and I plan to have a real voice someday. Everyone has a blog now so I clearly dont have one just because its a trend (if I were a trend follower I wouldnt dress the way I do) Maybe I have one as an outlet to my occasionally incoherent thoughts and at some point a platform for starting my mission to correct misconceptions and beliefs many people have taken about Arabs and the Middle East in general, maybe some one bored enough to roam through my blog will see how simple, humble and caring my family and friends are. So there may be a few posts about them, about Ramadan which is coming up in a few days and about food cause you know what- thats everyday :) Oh and as for the picture- thats the view from my window, its reason for being up there- none.
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