them isela like i didn't belong there.i don't identify with my religion that i feel like we are constantly doing these things where we are make in people feel left out when again what we are trying to do is assure them that we are all the same. i have just a think accepted that i am not arab or american or arab-american or i don't know. i am all of those things and one of them at the same time. or i will say i'm from new york because that's my most clear identity that i have. that is why i write about being -- the first line i wrote about being jewish and i new york. if you live in this neighborhood and act this way you are this thing so they are all completely arbitrary and i think -- but i don't think it's ever going to go away. i think i now realize it's what's fueled my father's work and in the way it fuels my work. i don't talk about it as eloquently talking about exile in the poetry of not feeling -- i just to talk about being confused and feeling uncomfortable. it's the same thing and what it does is it encourages y