“The high school teacher came to the class and said, ‘...I want to tell you about Martin Luther King,’ and that’s the first time I heard [of him]... I remember vividly that he told us [Dr. King] was in jail… For the first time, a black Baptist…

“As I reflect back, we were not allowed to say we are Palestinians. So, in elementary school, and high school, I study more about Israel and Jewish history and Zionist history… For us as children, my first language was Arabic. In the fourth grade, I…

“My dad took us to Yirka, and we were put in a makeshift Palestinian refugee camp… I wanted to know why my mother did not go with us, and I remember asking her… She is the one that said to Dad, ‘You take the children, you can protect them. I’m going…

“I grew up in [a] small Palestinian Arab village 25 miles northwest of Nazareth. My dad was a farmer and my mother, a housewife, but she helped in everything. I have five sisters and two brothers. It was a small neighborhood. Everybody knew…