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Identity, Belonging, and Citizenship<\/strong>
Wednesday, October 15, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was delighted by the news that scientist Omar Yaghi<\/strong> won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry<\/strong>. I noticed that Saudi news sources celebrated him as the first Saudi to win a Nobel Prize \u2014 something that made me happy too. Yet when I looked deeper into other sources, I found that he is originally Palestinian-American<\/strong> and also holds Saudi citizenship<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This made me think of several people I know who are in a similar situation \u2014 both in our time and throughout history \u2014 individuals who, despite their origins, hold other nationalities and have significant presences on the international stage.<\/p>\n

I thought of Dr. Magdi Yacoub<\/strong>, Dr. Farouk El-Baz<\/strong>, Amr Adib<\/strong>, and Dr. Osama Hamdy<\/strong>, among many others. If any of them were to win a major international prize \u2014 in medicine, physics, media, or culture \u2014 which country would take pride in them? Egypt? Saudi Arabia? England? America? Their country of origin or their country of citizenship? And how would they themselves feel \u2014 to whom would they declare their belonging?<\/p>\n

A person is born on land they did not choose, given an identity in a language they did not create, and bears a legal name that may not reflect their inner self.
With time, one may migrate \u2014 or be forced to \u2014 or choose a new homeland that grants them legal papers called \u201ccitizenship,\u201d whether to gain advantages, pursue knowledge, escape persecution, or as a conscious decision to start a new life and family.
But does that make one a true child of the new homeland? Or does an older homeland continue to live inside \u2014 ageless, unerasable?<\/p>\n

Identity is not residency; it is a journey.<\/strong>
It is the accumulation of experiences \u2014 the memory of childhood, a mother\u2019s voice, the warmth of family and community in a neighborhood and school, in pain and joy, in success and failure.
No one migrates alone \u2014 one carries the shadows of childhood, the names of early streets. So when asked, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d one doesn\u2019t answer only with the country printed on a passport, but with the land that most resembles their inner voice.<\/p>\n

Belonging<\/strong> is of two kinds:
The first is inherited<\/strong>, like lineage \u2014 residing in genes, language, habits, and memory.
The second is acquired<\/strong>, formed through participation, work, contribution, and a sense of responsibility toward the nation that embraces you.<\/p>\n

But can one truly choose between the two? Probably not.
A person may carry within them more than one homeland, more than one belonging \u2014 living a noble duality between the origin from which they came and the future in which they live. Even after gaining new citizenship, they may need time to become truly belonging<\/em>, not just a name on a card or passport. How many generations does it take to truly \u201cbelong\u201d?<\/p>\n

Sociologists say three generations<\/strong> are enough for the first roots to fade and for identity to be reshaped:
one generation migrates,
one adapts,
one integrates.
But philosophers whisper that time alone is not enough \u2014 for identity is not measured in years but in the depth of meaning.<\/p>\n

A person may live fifty years in a new homeland and never feel \u201cof it,\u201d while another, born abroad, may carry in their voice and heartbeat the spirit of distant ancestors. Belonging is not measured by residence but by resonance \u2014 by the ability to see yourself in the faces of those around you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A passport<\/strong> is a document of passage, not a certificate of belonging. It grants you the right to cross borders, not the right to memory. It\u2019s a temporary license to move between nations \u2014 but it does not define your inner frontiers.
How many people hold foreign passports yet still feel estranged, speaking a tongue they never mastered, living in a culture that doesn\u2019t reflect their soul?
And how many, without any citizenship, are rooted in their land like ancient trees?<\/p>\n

Culture<\/strong> is the collective memory that binds the inherited with the acquired. It is what we carry when we leave \u2014 what never falls from the suitcase of the soul.
Language, music, food, proverbs, laughter \u2014 they are all remnants of a homeland that lives within us.<\/p>\n

And when we live in a new homeland, we do not necessarily lose our first belonging. We may instead redefine it through a wider experience that deepens our understanding of humanity itself.<\/p>\n

So I share with the reader this reflection on inherited belonging<\/strong> and acquired belonging<\/strong>.
Life is layered: a person carries an indelible origin and gains a new identity that enriches them. The problem arises only when one of these is denied.
For whoever loses their origin becomes lost; whoever rejects the new becomes unable to integrate.<\/p>\n

Mature awareness<\/strong> recognizes that identity is not a \u201creplacement\u201d but an \u201coverlap,\u201d and that belonging is not measured by birthplace, but by the depth of one\u2019s sense of responsibility.<\/p>\n

In the end, a person possesses only themselves as a permanent homeland.
If one is true to oneself, open to the world, and loving toward others, one becomes a citizen of the greater homeland \u2014 the homeland of humanity.<\/p>\n

The true homeland<\/strong> is not on a map but in the conscience that binds you to goodness, in the language through which you express love, in the hand that gives without asking about origin or citizenship.<\/p>\n

Closing Thought: Toward a Universal Identity<\/h3>\n

At the deepest level of awareness, a person realizes that their true belonging is not limited by maps or constrained by borders.
Every land where the sun rises is a home for the soul, and every person who smiles at you is part of your greater family.
That is what philosophers say \u2014 though an ordinary person moving from one place to another may not perceive it so easily.<\/p>\n

Awareness can lift us beyond rigid attachment to one faith or ritual, beyond fighting over its forms or condemning others who differ, toward understanding its essence: that the Creator is one, calling us to love, justice, compassion, and goodness.<\/p>\n

Awareness helps us see that the homeland is an emotional bond \u2014 shared history, culture, loved ones, friends, and family. If a naturalized citizen succeeds in creating that shared feeling, they truly belong.<\/p>\n

When a person\u2019s consciousness rises from \u201cI am a citizen\u201d to \u201cI am a human being,\u201d a new horizon opens \u2014 one in which all people are seen as members of a single body, with different tongues and accents, yet hearts beating with the same sense of goodness, justice, and freedom.<\/p>\n

That is the awareness that does not erase origin but transcends it \u2014 that does not forget the roots but lets them stretch outward to embrace the entire universe.<\/p>\n

For when a person knows themselves, they know their true homeland.
And when they know their homeland, they discover that all the earth is one home, and all people \u2014 regardless of nationality \u2014 are members of one household in the expanse of existence.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. 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