tanya habjouqa was born injordan and raised between there and texas.look at those living in the occupied territories, finding a unique entry point into one of the most narrated places on the planet. don't replicate exactly what is happening in the news. find your way in that no—one else can tell. and go deeper. i am working on a place that is one of the most hyper—narrated places on earth. if you look at the coverage there versus anywhere else, the coverage is vast. but i'm bored by the majority of it and it doesn't represent the place that i know. and so i try to find the intimate. i try to find a unique entry point into any story, and i always try to go under, over, side door, around the corner. because i am not interested in reproducing what has already been done and said, because what is the point? it needs to be something that has more than one dimension. suddenly i was not a journalist coming in and out. palestine was home and i was the one sitting at checkpoints and experiencing this as reality, watching sometimes operatic scenes of ridiculousne