My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably the biggest in all of East Jerusalem. Our house was about 100 meters from the mosque. — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
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 contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world. — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here,… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
I think the first time I really felt that I was Palestinian was a time when I was trying to go back to school… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
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… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
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… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
You start questioning yourself: Who am I? Where do I belong? Where am I going? Why is my city divided? Why are we not… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
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… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
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… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably the biggest… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
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… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
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… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
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… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
