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Rheam El Roby

Rheam El-Rouby (Metzger) is a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and school psychologist with the New Paltz Central School District, and guest on The Painter's Dialectic podcast.

Sep 20, 2026

speaker_1GUEST
8:12
So Reem, what say you? What have you to add to this?
8:19
Wow.
8:20
Well, I think I'm in the right place, because all of the things you just mentioned are very much areas of great interest to me.
8:30
I grew up in a Sunni Muslim household and you know from parents who were originally, you know, my mom was married in a miniskirt and my dad you know, they came to the United States from Egypt because my dad loved James Dean and Alfred Hitchcock and Harley Davidson.
8:56
So not exactly what you would consider like your traditional Muslim values, but that's how they made their initial life decisions.
9:05
And then while living abroad for decades, an extended period of time, then it really kind of came from my mother to move back into more traditional religious beliefs.
9:22
And she really kind of steered that ship in that direction.

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RonUNKNOWN
36:18
As long as they're not conflicting, you know, then all the better.

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