Abrim became interested in politics after he witnessed the Arab Spring in Egypt first hand while studying in Cairo. Abrim emphasized how important family honor is in the Arab communities. He discusses how this honor system can go wrong with honor killings but he also gives examples of how this system drives modern Arab Muslim families to greatness.
Abrim splits the Arab communities into two groups, one group is the more traditional Arab families that follow sharia and the Quran. The other group is the Arab families which have western influences in their family systems; they don’t dress modestly, women work and provide for the family, and there is not as much of a focus on prayer on a daily basis.
Abrim told us that Arabs in Israel struggle with how the define their national identities. You can identify yourself as an Arab-Israeli but members in the community would think of you as a traitor, and others identity as Palestinians. Yet both these groups of identities still participate in the workforce and vote for their elected officials. By using the tools of Democracy, Arabs living in Israel can give themselves a voice of their own in Israeli society.