           I was born and raised in North Carolina and absolutely love to travel. A huge highlight was when I studied abroad in Istanbul during my Junior year of university. I then took that opportunity to see more of Europe and the Middle East on my own during that year. My goal is to find my travel buddy for life using BeyondChai inshAllah. I am also 100% Palestinian and frequently go back to visit family and friends. I graduated from North Carolina State University with a degree in Nutrition Science. I then began my position at Duke as a nutritionist and slowly realized that I could be using my knowledge to help those in more need of help. Afterwards I was awarded the Zahi Khouri fellowship to go to Nablus, Palestine to help refugee women, children and teens for 6 months. I love helping others, its what I do best. I believe we are in this world to succeed and be happy while doing so. After the fellowship ended I came back to North Carolina to help my father with the family business. I am working currently more than 50 hours a week in order to help him with the 7 restaurants in the Raleigh-Durham area. I am so unbelievably blessed with my amazing family and career, the only thing missing is that special someone. 