I came back to Palestine and decided I need to change my career and focus more on dance, which I did. We worked on a contemporary dance piece called “At the Checkpoint” to share with the outside world our day-to-day stories on the checkpoint facing the apartheid wall.<\/p>\n
I went through an unexpected, life changing experience of getting married to a wonderful man (Fajer, meaning dawn) and had a beautiful little baby girl, NARA, born on October 8th, 2006 . Her name is derived from fire (nar) in Arabic. It is the singular of fire, and is usually referred to the fire within a burning coal (which is usually the potential of something wonderful). She is a true miracle, and we are both so much in love with her. As soon as we lay our eyes on her, all our troubles disappear, and, in that sense, I think she is a miracle worker. We are still trying to get her papers from the Israeli authorities, as she is the result of a mixed marriage (a Jerusalem Palestinian, and a Ramallah Palestinian). Hope all goes well on that front.<\/p>\n
I am currently director of the first Theater Dance School in Palestine, my input in conflict transformation for youth and children within the Palestinian society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3474,"template":"","regions":[1376],"fields-of-practice":[],"degree":[749],"grad-year":[1158],"class_list":["post-1382","cjp_alumni","type-cjp_alumni","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-palestine","degree-gc","grad-year-1158"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cjp_alumni"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"fields-of-practice","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fields-of-practice?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"degree","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/degree?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"grad-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grad-year?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}