Zeina

This millennial immigrant's life is a satirical game of tug-of-war between the delusion of the "American Dream" and the deeply rooted Lebanese reality.

Zeina bounces back to California, with her baggage of cultural confusions and a knack for landing in awkward predicaments. Welcome to her world - where every day is a misadventure in balancing East and West, tradition and modernity, manyakeh wl jad (1). She flirts with the idea that life for hybrids like her should be lived on the border of the two worlds.

As she juggles the classic immigrant-parent drama, long-distance friendships, old flames, new unexpected romances, and the occasional existential crises on her rollercoaster of self-discovery, Zeina's writing her own rulebook on how to be a modern Arab-American - without losing her mind (or her heart).