“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.” FirstsChildrenHouseMemoriesGrowing UpGrowingGardenEastJerusalemMeterMosquesChildren Growing UpGrowing Children Author:Rula Jebreal
“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.” WorldDifferentWholeFeltReligiousSawsStreetsChildhoodGardenContradictionDifferent Worlds Author:Rula Jebreal