Rula Jebreal

You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to…

— Rula Jebreal

I think the first time I really felt that I was Palestinian was a time when I was trying to go back…

— 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…

— 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…

— Rula Jebreal

You start questioning yourself: Who am I? Where do I belong? Where am I going? Why is my city divided? Why are…

— 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…

— Rula Jebreal

There's something that scares me. It's the way media in the United States presents the rest of the world. I feel like…

— Rula Jebreal

As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they…

— Rula Jebreal

My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably…

— 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…

— 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…

— Rula Jebreal

I was 16 when my father died, and I had a choice to come back and live in his house or I'd…

— Rula Jebreal

The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

— Rula Jebreal

What I love most about New York is that I can walk in the street and nobody is looking at me as…

— Rula Jebreal

My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there...…

— Rula Jebreal