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BOSTON Growing up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Lea Kayali bonded with her Palestinian grandmother by making maqluba, a traditional Palestinian dish typically consisting of meat, rice and fried vegetables.
Their time spent together in the kitchen also helped Kayali, a 24-year-old Boston-based Palestinian American activist, feel closer to the country from which her grandmother was forced to flee as a child. As a 4- or 5-year-old girl, Kayali’s grandmother fled during the 1947-1948 Nakba or “catastrophe” in Arabic when an estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes following Israel’s declaration of independence from British control of the land, which prompted the first war between Israel and Palestine.