On August 31, 1970, Rania al-Yasin was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents who had moved from the West Bank village of Tulkarm in the 1960s. Despite growing up in the immense riches that the Persian Gulf's oil supplied, Rania was not unseeing to the plight of the Palestinian persons from which her family came. As a juvenile young female, she expended summers with an auntie and uncle in Tulkarm where she seen first hand Palestinian dwellings being bulldozed to be restored by Israeli settlements. After an learning in the best English-speaking ...