I was always dreaming that there must be a place where we could live better than the life we had in Israel. At the time, I thought it was like living in a prison, as we weren’t rich enough to be able to travel to Europe and we couldn’t travel to the surrounding countries because the borders were closed. Although we thought of ourselves as Palestinians, we were always referred to as Arab Israelis.
When I finished high school, they were recruiting Arab nurses to work in clinics around the country, so I signed up and studied Nursing . . .