 When I was growing up in Southern California, being raised by parents who were immigrants from the Middle East and Europe, it was quite a challenge to relate to them. What was really hard was to try to figure out what their understanding of culture was. And so they frequently tried to impose a set of cultural rules through the framework of Islam. And a lot of it didn't make sense to me. So for example, my father would say he would be really opposed to me sleeping over at any of my friend's houses. And so the thing that he would counter that with is he said, like, what is this friend's thing? This is such an American thing. You have cousins. You don't need friends. So that was like one of the turf battles that we fought in our household. And then it actually inspired me to really try to be compassionate about where my parents came from and what the process of migrating is like.