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…

- 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 has the same needs and wa…

- 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 faith for him, and I think he felt like if you…

- 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 light. There is something about th…

- Rula Jebreal

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.

- 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 one day this bubble w…

- Rula Jebreal

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…

- Rula Jebreal

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.

- Rula Jebreal

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…

- Rula Jebreal