Quotes by Rula Jebreal

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.

Choices

Girl

Middle East

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 the world outside the United States that is not understood here – that seems threatening to Americans.

Light

Television

United States

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 curfew for Palestinians. My father said, “I will walk first, but you have to understand, the police will not let me go… So keep moving and don’t look at me and don’t look back.”

Father

Moving

School

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 go to that school when I was 5, there must have been a reason – and I understood that reason when I was a teenager, because that school became the only place where I was safe.

Father

School

Teenager

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 that I was a girl, but the identity issues came later when I was 12 or 13 – then, they came in a very strong way.

Girl

Strong

Wall

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 don’t find more love and understanding at the end of a journey like that, then you are lost – and if you only find hate and resentment, it will destroy you. I believe that.

Father

Hate

Mother

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 wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion.

Children

Father

Taught Us

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 Jerusalem. Our house was about 100 meters from the mosque.

Children

Growing Up

Memories

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 saw in the streets. It was a different world.

Childhood

Garden

Religious

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Girl

Growing Up

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Media

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Middle East

Mother

Moving

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Receiving

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Quotes by Rula Jebreal

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.

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 the world outside the United States that is not understood here – that seems threatening to Americans.

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 that I was a girl, but the identity issues came later when I was 12 or 13 – then, they came in a very strong way.

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 wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion.

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 Jerusalem. Our house was about 100 meters from the mosque.

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 saw in the streets. It was a different world.

The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

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