CARTOON: Why My Dad Moved To The States

Malaka Gharib
1 min readDec 29, 2016

I asked my dad recently why he immigrated to the States. His response was a timely reminder of what makes this country so great, what makes us different. He was here for 17 years and moved back to Egypt in the mid 90s. I take for granted all that he ever wished for.

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Malaka Gharib

Writer, editor and illustrator based in Washington, D.C.