Stripped Bare

I used to be a stripper.
I specialized in the Gaza Strip.
That's the one where I give you all of my possessions, my house & my land.
And you don't tip me.

It's a one-off performance...

Mock Ye Not

It is assumed by many that Arabs have no sense of humour.
We do.
We just play the long game.
Centuries ago we gave the West: medicine, mathematics & astronomy.
The West gave us: The Crusades, The Inquisition & syphilis.

So we gave you Saddam Hussein.

Only joking.........

The fact that hundreds of thousands of people died in the process only goes to prove how serious we are about our comedy.

Ethnic Cleansing

It was the Bedouin Arabs who invented dry-cleaning.
A scarcity of water in the desert, they would sand-blast their clothes clean.
They later made the natural progression to chemicals.
Saddam Hussein was a great proponent of using chemicals to clean out stubborn stains, like the Kurds, for example.

Appropriate Arabs

Most people don't know this: the hijab was just the result of a bad-hair day.
An Arab woman, let's call her Leila, was running late, there were no hair straighteners in those days [& have you seen untamed Arab hair????], she sees a piece of cloth & thinks, " that'll do!", throws it over herself & goes about her business.
Her Arab sisters, ever the followers of fashion, think, "Hey! Leila's onto something here!". So they follow suit, or hijab in this case.....
Then - years later, it is appropriated by the Muslims.

Many things have been appropriated from the Arabs. We don't much mind, it's the fact that we're never asked that pisses us off.