I’ll never forget how diminished I felt moving there from Tel Aviv. Everything was so big it made me feel much smaller – physically and intellectually.
One of the most curious things about it was how Middle Eastern Britain was. Arab men and women, in keffiyeh and hijab, were everywhere.
Much more so than in the parts of Israel where we had lived, where the Arab presence was receding. Their London counterparts were clearly on the rise.
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