And lecturer which is beyond me, but also to be here as the speaker. My father meant a lot to me obviously as most parents to, but he was important to me as a father as well as he was to everyone else. Thank you very much for inviting me here. I have just published his book, looking for palestine. The subtitle is also important because it is called growing and confused in an arab american family. And to give you an idea how my own identity as the palestinian american has been, all i form did on my own which has been very difficult. My mother is from lebanon, from a Christian Family but they are actually quaker. That is the first problem. My dad was as many of you know, a palestinian born with american citizenship to british schools end he wrote about his own identity issues and left palestine at a young age. And he came to the United States at the age of 14 or 15 and he was also a christian, and i was born and baptized there. And i was sent to a private school for girls. And what went