I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.

I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.