Alawawdeh was born and raised in Jordan to a Palestinian father and a Jordanian mother. He discusses what it was like moving from Jordan to Chicago as a teenager and shares his struggle with self-identity as a Palestinian-Jordanian-American. “My self identity has been the biggest challenge of my life...A lot of times I feel like I’m lost between being Jordanian and being Palestinian and not being able to identify [with] or be accepted by one group.”

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