Back in 1996, as a graduate student in anthropology in New York, I procrastinated my schoolwork by answering an email posted by a lawyer from Catholic Charities looking for a volunteer Arabic interpreter. She asked me to go with her to an immigration detention center..
Rhoda Kanaaneh
Rhoda Kanaaneh has taught anthropology and gender and sexuality studies at Columbia University, American University, New York University, and Fordham University. She is the editor of Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender Among Palestinians in Israel and author of Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military and Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel and The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America.