Lebanese dating app for Lebanese singles in the US
Your mom knows a family in Dearborn, your cousin has a coworker in Houston, and everyone already has an opinion about who you should meet. HeyArab is a Lebanese dating app where you can do the choosing yourself.
Lebanese singles in America are a lot of different people
Lebanese families have lived in the US for well over a century. You will meet fourth generation Lebanese Americans in Boston and Detroit, and people who moved from Beirut last year for work or a degree. Dearborn, Los Angeles, Chicago and the New York area all have big communities.
Families are Maronite, Greek Orthodox, Melkite, Sunni, Shia or Druze, and plenty of couples cross those lines. Religion and denomination are on HeyArab profiles because they matter to a lot of people, and you can filter by religion if it matters to you.
Three languages in one text message
A Lebanese conversation can go from Arabic to French to English in one sentence. If you talk like that, you want someone who laughs instead of asking you to pick a language.
On HeyArab you list the languages you speak. Record a voice intro and people hear whether you sound Beiruti, from the mountain or from the south. Prompts like "At home we speak…" and "The Arabic word I use most in English…" give you an easy way to start the conversation.
Shu, which family?
Mention someone new at a Lebanese table and the questions come fast. Which village. Which family. Does your aunt know their aunt. Half the time she does, and by the second date you have a full report you never asked for.
Some people like that. Others want a few months before anyone at home hears a name. Your profile has a family setting for exactly this: involved from the start, private until it's serious, independent, or a bit of both. Pick one and the people you meet know where you stand before the first coffee.
Mezze, then the long goodbye
A Lebanese first date rarely ends when the plates are empty. There is always one more coffee, one more plate of fruit, and a goodbye at the door that takes twenty minutes. If you would rather skip the small talk, the prompt "Order for the whole table. Yalla, impress me." tells someone a lot about you before you meet.
Food is also a safe place to start a fight. Manakish with zaatar or with cheese. Whose mother makes the better tabbouleh. Whether a wedding without a zaffe counts as a wedding at all. Answers like that get replies.
Also on HeyArab: Syrian singles in the US.
Questions
- Can I show that I'm Maronite, Druze or Shia?
- Yes, if you want to. Religion is optional and Druze is one of the choices. The denomination list has Maronite, Melkite, Greek Orthodox, Sunni and Shia, among others. You can filter by religion, and the filter only becomes strict if you turn on Dealbreaker.
- Can I write my profile in French or Arabic?
- The app comes in English, Arabic and French, and your prompts can be in any of them. Add all three to your languages so people know they can switch.
- What do people say in a voice intro?
- Whatever sounds like you. Thirty seconds about your Sunday, your job or your teta's kibbeh is plenty, and people can tell Beirut from Zahle before you say where you're from.
Guides
Also read: Syrian singles, Palestinian singles, Jordanian singles, Egyptian singles, Iraqi singles, Moroccan singles, Yemeni singles, Algerian singles, Tunisian singles, Sudanese singles