Why are you staring at me?

well arabs always look at other arabs when they;’re not in arab countries.

@Huda
I guess it feels better to know that there are other Arabs around…

Maybe they were thinking “OMG I think that’s Mona from that crazy Arab girl blog!!” :p

Sorry! Now you are going to be all paranoid and stuff! Maybe they were thinking “Damn, I should have married a girl like her instead of this one I’m with!”

Whose the centre of attention? Such a hard life!

that cheap of yours ? aw thats not nice .

Lol – I live in the Washington DC area which has TONS of Arabs and they all stare at each other… even when we go back home to Jordan, everyone stares to a degree I think it’s just an ‘Arab’ thing – to size up everyone around you. See how you compare to them

They probably just thought you were pretty. Guys like pretty women.

I am sacrilegious in their world.

Yey

Nothing like a good dose of sacrilege to make one’s day. Keep up the good work :up:

Stop being so scandalous I never understood guys like that.

dont worry mona thats soo common, they’ll stare at you from like down the street. Maybe their trying to figure out where your from ? But i always feel like theres something wrong with me when Im getting stared at, and then i always bow my head so they stop looking at me or turn away or fiddle with something.

lol I know exactly what you are talkin about, me being an Arab and all. I used to live in Ottawa and I would get the same looks all the time. I am now living overseas, in an Arab country, and the looks have not ceased. I guess it’s just an Arab thing. They like to stare, and a lot of the time when its only the guys staring, its usually because they like you. Stupid, I know.

Well, as long as they’re not mentally undressing you … err … oh … bummer

I have to say this, it is possible they are doing that guy thing where they are checking out some cute girl, and I’ve noticed from others that guys of a particular ethnic group likes to check out other girls of the same group. Not saying what they are doing is right 1) staring is just rude, 2) also if they are with their wife/girlfriend it wouldn’t look good for them if they were caught looking at other women.

Arab guys stare. Always. In Ukraine, in Jordan, in Emirates, wherever the hell they are. They stare if you are an Arab, if you wear hijab, and in particular if you are blonde. A friend of mine who wears hijab gets stared at pretty much as much as I do.
Sorry, Arab men, but I would gladly, oh so gladly, shoot the street-walking-around-staring-shouting part of your gender. (evil laugh)
The way I get out of it? You may try telling yourself you are so stunningly beautiful that even a man with a wife can’t stop looking at you )
Or – come up to him and ask his wife, excuse me, do I know you? Your man is looking at me. )

@ Oksana AMEN. Arab men always stare at me, in a very scary perverted way, even if they have wives AND children with them. Im arab but my grandparents are turkish and syrian so im more ”european” looking than typical arab (whatever that is). Once this arab guy who had grey hair so he was old enough to be my father (I just turned 20) started harrassing me on the bus on my way home from the office at 10 pm at night but I told him to leave me alone or I would call the police. He started laughing at me and found it very funny and said he could do anything he wanted and he had no regard for the fact I could be his daughter or niece or something. And there were two other men on the bus and they actually laughed. Seriously it can be really dangerous. I think that nowadays no matter where in the world you go you have to accept that you will encounter men like that. Sad. But true. Just be careful because if people are giving you the **death stare** especially men its better to watch your back.

This is a product of Islam – and yet you are defending it? Why?

@nobody – How on EARTH is this a product of Islam??!!! You get much more obvious stares from men in Hungary and Italy (to name two, I can give other variations in almost any country if you’d like) and they aren’t really “Muslim” countries! Your comments is probably one of the stupidest things I have heard… if you are going to bash Islam, at least have an idea of what it is – you just look dumb otherwise.

@nobody. Exactly. I get as much stares from Christian Arab men as from Muslim And yea, drunk Ukrainians give stares as well – Not to blame only one nation

you could always turn around and moon them…or just smile pretty and say i know, huh. hehehe

@PJ
OMG, that would just be an interesting story to hear about….lol

If someone is staring at you incessantly its better to watch youre back.