Roots of Resilience: Interfaith Sisters on Palestinian Heritage, Justice, & Belonging

About this episode

The episode features a conversation with three sisters from a blended Palestinian, Muslim, Christian, and Jewish family discussing themes of resilience, identity, and justice.

It’s not every week we host an incredible sister trio on the podcast! Layla Ali Rabih-Ziegler, Aussy Levi, and Dora Rabih Griffin grew up inside what many people insist is impossible: a Palestinian, Muslim, Christian, and Jewish family…all blended together. A household where holidays overlapped, where multiple mother tongues echoed in the halls, where identity wasn’t a single lane but a whole woven tapestry. Throughout this conversation, the themes of family, tradition, land and language coalesce into an idea of “home,” a place that taught them to see common humanity above all, before difference. The sisters speak of confusion and beauty living side by side, and of learning long before politics gave them language for it that coexistence is not a theory but a daily practice. Aussy reflects on the ache and awakening of watching injustice unfold in front of children who deserve a gentler world. Layla speaks about raising her son — a Palestinian boy in America — with a sense of pride that becomes its own form of resistance. And Dora tells a story about planting seeds from Palestine in Colorado soil, coaxing one single red tomato into being, and recognizing that resilience often looks…

People in this episode

Hosts: Lauren Grubaugh Thomas, Hannah Curtis

Guests: Layla Ali Rabih-Ziegler, Aussy Levi, Dora Rabih Griffin

Topics covered

• interfaith dialogue
• Palestinian heritage
• justice
• belonging
• coexistence
• family
• identity

Keywords

• resilience
• interfaith
• Palestinian
• justice
• coexistence
• family
• identity
• home
• tradition
• allyship

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Palestine, America, Colorado

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