Welcome to my blog! I’m an Israeli lawyer, Jewish, married to a Palestinian resident of Ramallah, and author of the book, Maqluba – Upside Down Love (Hebrew), which describes how we met and fell in love.  I write about raising our two children, 7-year-old Forat and 3-year-old Adam, in the West Bank and more recently in the United States, where we are staying for a sabbatical year.  We are trying to lead ordinary lives in an extraordinary and sometimes unforgiving reality, one that I will share with you here. I have changed the names of people in the blog, including my own. “Umm Forat” means “Mother of Forat” in Arabic. My book, published by Asia Press, is available here, thus far in Hebrew only.