“Many Arabs have fair skin, and my own is more olive than brown. This racial ambiguity affords me some degree of acceptance – until my ethnic background is inevitably brought to the foreground. Whiteness, then, is more than skin color. It is, as race scholar Paul Kivel describes, “a constantly shifting boundary separating those who are entitled to have certain privileges from.”

“Many Arabs have fair skin, and my own is more olive than brown. This racial ambiguity affords me some degree of acceptance – until my ethnic background is inevitably brought to the foreground. Whiteness, then, is more than skin color. It is, as race scholar Paul Kivel describes, “a constantly shifting boundary separating those who are entitled to have certain privileges from.”

— Ruby Hamad