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6 Things That Just Made Sense at My Best Friend's Intercultural Wedding (Turkish × British-Indian)
By Dalia El Ariny | MyMixedHeritage
30 June 2026
My best friend just got married. I say this as someone who thinks a lot, academically and personally, about what it means to belong to more than one world: this wedding was one of the most intentional, generous, and quietly radical things I have ever witnessed.

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Dalia El Ariny
26 July 2023
I was born in a Italian-Catholic and Egyptian-Muslim family. All my life a question followed me: what are you? Everyone has always been so eager to label me, to know which of these religions had won; and perhaps, perversely, which of my parents did. Reality is that for me, for my parents, for my brother, it was never a battle of religions. It was never a competition. For us, there was always enough space for both religions to exist, together. Attending church on Christmas with my mum never diminished my father’s Islamic identity, nor participating in Ramadan once shook my mum’s Catholic faith.







