Where I come from

I grew up in the South Hebron Hills. All my life I have lived on a seam line between many kinds of people: Palestinians and settlers, religious and secular, city and village, the center of the country and its periphery.

I learned to find my way among these populations and to speak their language, because language is my field of research and the object of my love.

What occupies me is how the puzzle of identities fits together in the place where I live. That is why I studied at university in the departments of Middle Eastern studies, Bible, and the ancient Near East.