They call it 'falling in love' because it's less like stepping and more like tripping. Tripping is the part where you're still trying to remain upright
I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.