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> [You start questioning yourself: Who am I? Where do I belong? Where am I going? Why is my city divided? Why are we not allowed to enter in certain areas? We used to ask my father why the Christians lived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/you-start-questioning-yourself-who-am-i-where-do-i-belong-where-am-i/)

[Rula Jebreal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rula-jebreal/)

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## More by Rula Jebreal

> [You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/you-can-come-from-china-russia-any-place-and-you-can-be-a-new-yorker/)

[Rula Jebreal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rula-jebreal/)

> [I think the first time I really felt that I was Palestinian was a time when I was trying to go back to school…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/i-think-the-first-time-i-really-felt-that-i-was-palestinian-was-a/)

[Rula Jebreal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rula-jebreal/)

> [I was protected behind the walls of my house, the walls of the mosque and later, walls of my school. I didn't know that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/i-was-protected-behind-the-walls-of-my-house-the-walls-of-the-mosque/)

[Rula Jebreal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rula-jebreal/)

> [My father was my mother's home, the one place that she knew she could be safe. It was all a journey of faith for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/my-father-was-my-mother-s-home-the-one-place-that-she-knew-she-could/)

[Rula Jebreal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rula-jebreal/)

> [You start questioning yourself: Who am I? Where do I belong? Where am I going? Why is my city divided? Why are we not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/you-start-questioning-yourself-who-am-i-where-do-i-belong-where-am-i/)

[Rula Jebreal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rula-jebreal/)

> [I hope there's a window that opens in American television where the rest of the world is viewed in a less censored light. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/i-hope-there-s-a-window-that-opens-in-american-television-where-the/)

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> [There's something that scares me. It's the way media in the United States presents the rest of the world. I feel like people in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/there-s-something-that-scares-me-it-s-the-way-media-in-the-united/)

[Rula Jebreal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rula-jebreal/)

> [As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/as-a-woman-you-don-t-have-really-much-freedom-of-choice-in-the-middle/)

[Rula Jebreal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rula-jebreal/)

> [My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably the biggest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/my-first-memory-as-a-child-growing-up-is-of-playing-in-the-gardens/)

[Rula Jebreal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rula-jebreal/)

> [My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy has the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/my-father-s-biggest-achievement-with-us-as-children-was-that-he/)

[Rula Jebreal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rula-jebreal/)

> [There's a deformity in the information that the public in the United Statesis receiving. It's contained in kind of a bubble and one day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/there-s-a-deformity-in-the-information-that-the-public-in-the-united/)

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> [I was 16 when my father died, and I had a choice to come back and live in his house or I'd stay at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/i-was-16-when-my-father-died-and-i-had-a-choice-to-come-back-and-live/)

[Rula Jebreal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rula-jebreal/)

> [The best artists transcend nationality and identity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/the-best-artists-transcend-nationality-and-identity/)

[Rula Jebreal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rula-jebreal/)

> [What I love most about New York is that I can walk in the street and nobody is looking at me as if I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/what-i-love-most-about-new-york-is-that-i-can-walk-in-the-street-and/)

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> [My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rula-jebreal/my-whole-childhood-was-about-being-in-the-garden-it-wasn-t-really-a/)

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