We Just Want To Live Here: A Palestinian Teenager an Israeli Teenager An Unlikely Friendship

Palestinian Amal Rifai and Israeli Odelia Ainbinder are two teenage girls who live in the same city yet worlds apart. They met on a student exchange program to Switzerland. Weeks after they returned the latest violent Intifada broke out in the fall of 2000.. But two years later Middle East correspondent Sylke Tempel encouraged Amal and Odelia to develop their friendship by facilitating an exchange of their deepest feelings through letters. In their letters Amal and Odelia discuss the Intifada their families traditions suicide bombers and military service. They write frankly of their anger frustrations and fear but also of their hopes and dreams for a brighter future.. Together Amal and Odelia give us a renewed sense of hope for peace in the Middle East in We Just Want To Live Here.