I moved to the US from the West Bank in 2001, but sometimes I wonder: What would my life have been like if my family had not left?

As I stressed about what to wear to senior prom, my Palestinian friends worried about what remained of Ramallah after an Israeli...

Over twenty years ago, my father drove my mother 10 miles from a small town called Deir Debwan near Ramallah to a hospital in Jerusalem. My mother's doctor was based there, and I was born on a rainy day with few problems. Well, except being given the same first and...

"Void in Israel, see Palestinian ID #." That's what an Israeli stamp states in Hebrew on my American passport. In Israel, I am a numbered Palestinian despite my American citizenship.

Although the Oslo Accords of 1993 paved the way for limited Palestinian self-governance under the Palestinian Authority, they have not...