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

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 same needs and wa….

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 is something about th….

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 this bubble w….

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….

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 I was Palestinian. I knew tha….

I think the first time I really felt that I was Palestinian was a time when I was trying to go back to school with my father at night and there was a….

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 different. In my country and in Italy, you hav….

The best artists transcend nationality and identity..

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 Jerus….

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 him, and I think he felt like if you….

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 the school. But I felt if my father wanted me to g….

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 America are getting a….

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 are….

As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13 or 14, girls get married..