Jewnaizah

The jarring similarities between Qassimi and Jewish culture

As I navigated the textured landscape of American subcultures when I first moved to New York, someone at an East Hampton house party a few summers ago offered this taxonomy: “At a Jewish party, you will never run out of food. And at a WASP party, you will never run out of alcohol.” But what about a Saudi party?

There weren’t many Saudis for me to befrien…