My favorite spices are Sumac and Zaatar, and there is a lot of debate about the ethnic and cultural identities of those spices and the dishes they belong to. This is very similar to some of the struggles that Arabs in the Arab diaspora are going through. It's hard to find one label that fully defines them or their identities. The good news is you don't have to eliminate any parts of your identity to fit within one label. Whether you identify as an Arab, as a Middle Eastern, N

Cross-cultural psychotherapy, multicultural therapy, or culturally-responsive therapy is not what is done in therapy, but rather how it is done . It is no secret that the field of psychology and psychotherapy as we know it today has been heavily shaped by Western cultures, developed by and for a monogenous cultural experience, which is the American and Western European cultures. But what happens when not everyone has that same worldview? Or when that view fails to capture the