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We have seen this all among arabs. Nose to nose greetings, cheek to cheek and sometimes they kiss/smack for slight seconds of each other's lips after saying salam alaikom. And they're repeating it so many times, twice or thrice at left cheek and same with the right cheek (im counting it though) so with the nose to nose greetings.

Since i am not an arab i would like to be enlightened by their act of greetings. They said that "arab greetings" differ from the level of their relations to each other. If you're just a friend it is "cheek to cheek" and nose to nose for blood relations.

I am not sure how true these things are and so i would like to know from forumers. If this has been tackled here before then i would love to see the link (though i did some search can't find any).

its easy, local style is nose-to-nose

other nationalities cheek to cheek

but i've seen egyptians doing nose to nose. and while doing those cheek to cheek or nose to nose, you're saying something to each. what are those words?

and what about the smack on the lips? are those locals too?

i dont know about the smacking on the lips, sounds kinky

but some of my dudes at work greet me with the nose thing and they are either egyptian or jordians. Its all good

5ashm!

Anything can be said really while 'kissing' ( ), people usually mutter the usual: Keefak? How is work? Long time no see, bla bla bla

I don't recall seeing any Jordanians or Palestinians doing the nose-to-nose thingie to be honest unless it was to a local/khaleeji friend

Also: The number of kisses and how many are on each cheek depends on the nationality I heard, don't know if it is true but for some they won't kiss more than 3 times, all on one cheeck or two on the right and one on the other or whatever... Never paid attention really

the whole kissing thing confuses me. cuz i do it the lebanese/pali way but here most dont do that so its kind of hard. grrrr i also sometimes feel like my head is going to fall off cuz sometimes they will just be so rough about it

bushra21 wrote:the whole kissing thing confuses me. cuz i do it the lebanese/pali way but here most dont do that so its kind of hard. grrrr i also sometimes feel like my head is going to fall off cuz sometimes they will just be so rough about it

And what is the Lebanese/Pali way?

liverpool4ever wrote:And what is the Lebanese/Pali way?

if you dont know the answer to that by now hon, im afraid its too late for me to help.

aint never seen or heard bout the lips to lip thing ..

but the iranian one is cheek to cheek .. 3 times .

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so ur 3eemi...

i think your full of crap symmetric

Bleakus wrote:i think your full of crap symmetric

hahaha, i wanted to say something like that but i thought id try and be nice first

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^^great come back lol

awww bleakus did you hear that... we arent emiraties...yalla ta3al, lets cry together over this...

im acually russian, bushra didnt you know that lol

i have to step in .. whats wrong with being a zalama AAAAAAAAAAAA ?? dont let me come down to bur dubai and throw you in the creek then you can swim back to iran

haha good one MaaaD

he is just another troll in the house

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symmetric you have used this thread to truly show what an idiot you are, so i dont need i need to say much. But i wanted to point out that being proud of your roots is one thing and insulting other people is another.

I always see each person as an ambassador of his people, and you sure have a done a fine job in representing your people. good job buddy !

whos 6th login is this?

Didn't you Persians get your arse kicked by 300 Greeks?

Not so tough.

Wow.. it's only here that I learned about "zalamat", but I don't understand why should there be a need for locals to make such distinctions of themselves, and making being zalamat a bad thing.
If I were ultra rich, would there be any other reason for me to be insecure with other peoples? most probably.

trust me, its people like him who give us a bad name

^ I trust you on that and I'm sorry I didn't mean to generalize.

its alright bro