Arab-American Psycho

This week's guest is Victoria Paris, the owner of your FYP on TikTok. We chat about how she grew a cult following, her first fashion week, good vs. bad influencers, privilege, financial stability, writing your own narrative, and so much more. Enjoy psychos! BECOME A MEMBER OF ARAB-AMERICAN PSYCHO ON PATREON FOR EXCLUSIVE EPISODES https://www.patreon.com/arabamericanpsycho @victoriaparis https://ww...

This week's guest is none other than Maria Alsadek, a close friend and multi-hyphenate based in NY. We chat about deciding the move to New York, finding your way in fashion, the evolution of NYFW, and so much more. Enjoy psychos! BECOME A MEMBER OF ARAB-AMERICAN PSYCHO ON PATREON FOR EXCLUSIVE EPISODES https://www.patreon.com/arabamericanpsycho @mariaalia https://instagram.com/mariaalia @noore htt...

This week’s guest is Rund Abdelfatah, co-host and producer of NPR’s first history podcast, Throughline. We chat about family dynamics, growing pains, the importance of human connection, challenging historical narratives told from the white male gaze, gaining perspective, and so much more. Enjoy psychos! BECOME A MEMBER OF ARAB-AMERICAN PSYCHO ON PATREON FOR EXCLUSIVE EPISODES https://www.patreon.c...

This week's episode is a shorter solo episode but I'm finally ready to share where I'm moving along with some other feelings. Enjoy psychos! BECOME A MEMBER OF ARAB-AMERICAN PSYCHO ON PATREON FOR EXCLUSIVE EPISODES https://www.patreon.com/arabamericanpsycho @noore https://www.instagram.com/noore @arabamericanpsycho https://www.instagram.com/arabamericanpsycho New episodes every Sunday, and if you...

This week I had the pleasure of speaking to the co-founders of Lanor, a product management platform launching this October. Abiola Doherty is a first-generation Nigerian-American based in LA, and Onanma Okeke was born in Nigeria, raised between Nigeria and Brazil, and is currently based in NY. We talk about the importance of a name, the immigrant vs. first-gen experience in America, the work that...

It's been a minute... But I'm back with some exciting news. If you want to listen to this week's solo episode (and actually find out what this life altering announcement is), subscribe to my Patreon where I share every last juicy detail of the last five weeks of my life. Subscribe to the AAP Patreon https://www.patreon.com/arabamericanpsycho @noore https://www.instagram.com/noore @arabamericanpsyc...

This week’s guest is Lara (@gazangirl), Palestinian activist, lawyer, and co-host of The Palestine Pod. We chat about finding humor in darkness, censorship on Instagram, the right of return for Palestinians, what it means to be “American” as a Palestinian, and so much more. Enjoy psychos! @gazangirl https://www.instagram.com/gazangirl Listen to 'The Palestine Pod' https://podcasts.apple.com/us/pod...

This week’s guest is Yasmeen Mjalli, founder and creative director of nöl collective based in Ramallah. We talk about growing up surrounded by white people, immigrant parents’ fear of assimilation, seeing the beauty in your own culture, life altering transitions, liberation from reclaiming your identity, and so much more. This was such a special conversation, enjoy psychos! Shop nöl collective htt...

This week’s guest is Rotana Tarabzouni, an LA based Saudi artist, singer, songwriter, and host of her new sex education show, F*D & Blessed. We chat about her spiritual awakening, wanting to be loved, becoming comfortable with your sexuality, our relationship with pleasure, the male gaze, what inspired her new show, and so much more. Enjoy psychos! @iamrotana https://www.instagram.com/iamrotana @n...

This week’s guest is Lana Al Beik, a Palestinian-Syrian model and creative. We talk about being born a refugee, unlearning colonial ideologies, living in America as a Palestinian, what “looking like an Arab” actually means, navigating the fashion industry while being anti-zionist, and so much more. Enjoy psychos! @lana_.jpg https://www.instagram.com/lana_.jpg @noore https://www.instagram.com/noore...

This week’s guest is Adam HajYahia, a Palestinian activist and researcher based in Haifa. We talk about the emotional exhaustion that comes with being Palestinian, how israel uses pinkwashing as a tool for colonial violence, why the Palestinian queer movement depends on the Palestinian fight for freedom, the evil that is European colonialism, and so much more. Enjoy psychos! @kimikku https://www.i...

I never thought this day would come but this week's guest is my mother, Dr. Feryal Rasheed. This episode is special to me for many reasons, but especially because my mom allowed herself to really open up and share her early childhood memories in Gaza, which as you can imagine was quite traumatic and not easy for her to talk about. I hope you appreciate this episode as much as I do, enjoy psychos....

This week's guest is Meera Adnan, a Palestinian designer based in Gaza City. We discuss the recent attacks on Gaza, coping with fear and death, continuous traumatic stress disorder, finding comfort in the ability to identify bombs, the dehumanization of Palestinian men, what people don't know about Gaza and the blockade, Palestinian emo, realizing that people don't know wtf is happening in Palesti...

This week's episode is a very overdue solo episode where I talk about MY FEELINGS, unfollowing people/brands, why claiming to "not know enough about Palestine" isn't an excuse anymore, and so much more. Enjoy psychos, and free Palestine! @noore https://www.instagram.com/noore @arabamericanpsycho https://www.instagram.com/arabamericanpsycho New episodes every Sunday, and if you made it this far ple...

This week’s guests are Palestinian father and son, Sama’an Ashrawi, a Palestinian-American writer, filmmaker, music producer, and host of the Nostalgia Mixtape podcast, and Ibrahim Ashrawi, a Palestinian refugee born in Jerusalem who along with his siblings and friends, co-founded Palestine’s first original rock 'n roll band: Al-Bara’em (The Blooms). We talk about early memories of music, Sama’an’...

This week I talk to Maria Alsadek, CMO of Miilkiina, model, and one of my closest friends who is no stranger to AAP. On the 73rd anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Palestinians) and amidst the humanitarian crisis and genocide currently happening in Palestine, we talk about the power of social media and why your support matters, why we don’t engage with zionists,...

This week’s guest is Khaoula Ghanem, an Algerian-Canadian Editor at Arab News and former Vogue Arabia writer based in Dubai. We chat about why men should always pay, considering a career in fashion, never seeing your body in mainstream media, being in a toxic relationship with capitalism, simply existing as a woman, resigning from Vogue Arabia, allowing people to enjoy things, and so much more. En...

This week’s guest is Molly Blutstein, Style and Beauty Creator based in Atlanta (who you may know as @accidentalinfluencer). We chat about style evolution, getting vaccinated, sharing your personal life online, body image struggles, healthy validation, PR guilt and brands who don’t pay, our mutual obsession with YouTube, and for the first time in AAP history: a trivia game about Trisha Paytas! I l...

This week’s guest is Tiffany Hsu, Global Fashion Buying Director at Mytheresa. We chat about dealing with culture shock, being a rebellious teenager with Chinese parents, learning how to be resourceful, the perks of being naive, what a fashion buyer actually does, huge hamsters, and so much more. @handinfire https://instagram.com/handinfire @mytheresa.com https://www.instagram.com/mytheresa.com/ @...

The monthly solo episode is here and I recorded it while I was fasting, which means it took all sorts of directions that I did not intend on taking. I talk about Ramadan etiquette, why I think “super religious” people are sus, having a rough start to my birthday, and I actually cried a little during this episode which I believe is a first so there's that. Enjoy psychos, and Ramadan Mubarak! @noore...

This week’s guest is Rio Viera-Newton, Beauty Writer for The Strategist and Author of Let’s Face It: Secrets of a Skincare Obsessive. We talk about growing up with acne, skincare trial and error, understanding your skin needs, how a Google Doc launched her career, acid addictions, her go-to skincare routine for special occasions, writing a book, masking with Alexa Chung, and so much more. Enjoy ps...

This week’s guest is Dina Shihabi, an Arab actor and writer. We chat about our mutual fascination with cats, eating intuitively, the power of positive reinforcement, following your heart and taking risks, being a daughter in an Arab family, sexuality, her upcoming series 'Ya Bint', and so much more. Enjoy psychos! @shihabidina https://www.instagram.com/shihabidina @noore https://www.instagram.com/...

This week's guest is Alexandra Mondalek, Senior Editorial Associate at Business of Fashion. We chat about her Lebanese upbringing, palatable "American" names, her journalism career, the pros and cons of authenticity, the fashion world post-pandemic, Instagram's mortality, why saving money is sexy, and so much more. Enjoy psychos! @alexandramondalek https://www.instagram.com/alexandramondalek/ @amo...

Back with another monthly solo episode where I talk all about friendship and my experience with the second Moderna vaccine. I share a list of red flags to look out for in a frenemy, how to sustain friendships (especially as an adult), why I love flexible friendships, and how to know when a friendship has run its course and needs to die. Enjoy psychos! @noore https://www.instagram.com/noore @arabam...

This week's guest is Chrissy Rutherford (@chrissyford), co-founder of 2BG, fashion and social media expert, and former Special Projects Director of Harper's Bazaar. We chat about her Jamaican upbringing, the plight of children of immigrants, her mental health journey, being vulnerable online, how racism functions in the fashion and beauty space, being antiracist, and so much more. Enjoy psychos! @...