My name is Alimah Amal Hassan. I was born and raised in the City of Al-Karameh in the Kingdom of Jordan. My family moved to the region of Ontario, Canada, about ten years ago. Today, I turn twenty two. I'm a third-year student at Carleton University in the City of Ottawa. I have a lot to be thankful for today. Seriously. I live in the greatest country in the world, bar none. Canada is a wonderful place! In about a year, I'll have my Bachelor's degree in Criminology from Carleton University, then I'll go to Law School. Most Muslims don't celebrate their birthdays but I don't follow that bullshit. Birthdays are a wonderful thing in my eyes. This is my special day and I'm going to have a blast.
Somehow, I ended up in bed with Mustafa Karim, this big and tall Black guy from the Republic of Ethiopia. His father Abdul Karim is Ethiopian and his mother Malika Mohammed is Somalian. She's one of those rare Somali Muslim women who converted to Christianity and married a Christian male. Mustafa was born in Ethiopia but raised in the City of Calgary, in the Alberta region of our beloved Canada. He's a civil engineering student at the University of Ottawa. He's also bisexual. We've been friends for a while, me and him. I know he's bisexual and even though I never told him this, I've always fancied him. A lot of people make assumptions about him when they see him because he looks more Somali than Ethiopian. He's not Muslim, he's a practicing Christian. Also, he speaks English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi and the guttural Somali language. The guy is super cute, smart and charming. Of course, he can't be straight.
I met Mustafa two years ago when he took a summer course at Carleton University. A lot of Ottawa University students take courses at Carleton and I don't like them because they're full of themselves. I'm a Raven gal through and true. The Ravens are Carleton University sports teams mascot, just in case you're not Canadian and thus don't know such things. I have always found Black men really hot, and Mustafa was definitely the cream of the crop. Six feet four inches tall, broad-shouldered and well-built, with light brown skin and curly Black hair. People say he looks like that guy from TV series The Famous Jett Jackson, only taller and more muscled. I like tall men. I'm a tall gal myself since I stand five feet eleven inches while barefoot. I love tall men but short chicks steal all the tall guys. It's almost as if being a tall woman makes you unappealing in the eyes of tall men. That's a shame because I think tall men and tall women look good together.
Mustafa and I became friends, even though he was dating this White guy named Jeff Wilkinson at the time. I don't like White guys. I find them boring as hell and pretentious. They're always hitting on me. I like two types of men, really dark-skinned guys from Pakistan and African men. There are lots of both in the City of Ottawa but they're usually not interested in a young Arab woman like me. I almost stopped wearing the hijab because I quickly discovered it's a turn-off for both Muslim men and non-Muslim men. Seriously. Take Carleton University for example. All the Arab guys and the Somali guys are dating White women. Arab women and Somali women are ignored by the men of their respective communities. Apparently, Muslim guys find Muslim women too boring. They like to play around with White women, and they only notice us Muslim women when they're ready to get married or when they're trying to impress their conservative parents.