About this episode
A story of love and family — and deadlines. Read more: For Post Reports producer Linah Mohammad, moving back in with her parents to weather the pandemic in Texas seemed like a harmless idea. But then Mohammad, who is single, turned 25 — a milestone sometimes deemed “the cutoff age for eligibility” for Arab women to marry — and suddenly her parents’ involvement in her love life made things a lot more complicated. So she decided to do something she’d never done before: let her parents arrange a date. Mohammad’s piece originally aired on the “ This American Life” episode “Twenty-five.” Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer