“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…

“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…