Fatema, 22, was born in the United States. However, her family relocated to Lebanon, where her parents were raised as Palestinian refugees, when she was 5 years old. She lives in Saida in southern Lebanon, and graduated in 2016 from the American University of Beirut wth a bachelor's degree in biology. She now is in medical school at AUB!
Among her other interests are swimming, reading, politics and history.
I am a Palestinian with American citizenship living in Lebanon. And that imposes a great responsibility.
What comes to mind when ISIS is mentioned? In conversations and in the media, their acts of terrorism are automatically linked to Islam and Muslims.
While for thousands of refugees, the trek to Europe ends unhappily, my two cousins have at last found safety and a hopeful future.
A conversation with a friend made me realize how trivial my “problems” are as a student, compared to the devastating conditions my people live in.
The youth always speak about longing for our land, but whatever emotion we have will never amount to what our grandparents experienced.
When an attempted terrorist attack recently occurred in Lebanon, the media were quick to blame a refugee. Why are we the first to be suspects?
