The Balancing Arab tells the story of Heidi, an Irish American personal fitness trainer, and Hanan, her once morbidly obese Arab American client. Set in a downtown Chicago gym amidst a strenuous training session, the mood turns tense as the two women recount an event at the Arab American Cultural Center a few nights earlier, an event at which the evening's political discourse got filtered through decidedly different lenses.
—Silk Road Rising