think... people see the power of this love, and when they see pictures of you with your husband, king hussein, this connection that you had... and i think that... i remember thinking when i was a kid, trying to kind of do the double culture thing, because i was mexican, but i was also american, and just seeing you, and i was like, "wow, she was able to this. she was able to brid the two cultures." but so much of it was based on the power of love. >> a great deal, and while many people don't realize my arab heritage, and that i had worked in the arab world, i had worked in iran, and i'd worked in australia before i married, but i at the time was working in the arab world from a base in jordan and traveling throughout, doing research throughout a great many arab countries. so i had something of an understanding of the region, and i had an instinctive interest and curiosity because of my heritage. but it was my husband who had to persuade me through his faith in what we could be together, because i kept asking myself, "could i possibly be the right partner for him? i'm an independent young woman

i think the frustration for many of us middle east hands the relationship between king hussein, and i knew king hussein and covered ravine and with the assassination we watched that hope essentially vanished and as the united states has essentially become captive to a really rapacious right wing for instance the foreign minister has openly called for the ethnic cleansing of israeli, arabs and palestinians. this was unthinkable when i first got to jerusalem, and for me it is a debate about the health of the middle east and the health of the israelis itself. i don't think that responding to the historical injustice through the use of force and occupation is in a long-term productive