Advice
Susan Abulhawa on living with common morality, common agency and environmental sense

Susan Abulhwa was born to refugees of the Six Day War of 1967 when Israel captured what remained of Palestine and her family's land was seized. She moved to the US as a teenager, graduated in biomedical science and established a career in medical science. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, an organization dedicated to upholding the right to play for Palestinian children. She is the author of three novels, which have been translated into 32 languages.

These rules for living are reposted from Manifesto, a regular feature of WePresent that invites inspiring people to share ten of their life learnings. Here are two of Susan's:

"7: Children are born with all the right instincts for compassion, empathy, wonder, imagination, curiosity, joy and play. The best thing we can do is not 'teach' or 'discipline' them away from these instincts.

"8. We are not born to accumulate material junk or to serve an economy, but to create an economy that works for us. Hard work can be a joy, but capitalism is a cancer."

Article: Ten Rules for Living by Susan Abulahwa