She grew up a hasan sabi [tomboy], “in the streets,” her mother says, of the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, playing football on rooftops or in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and hopscotch on al-Wad street with “stones” of tied orange peels. She still lives in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. Her second-story house is tucked away in a side alley, at the top of a narrow, circular stone stairway which winds around her neighbors’ homes and then magically opens up to the sky. From her roof, which she has made into a garden of flowering shrubs and cactuses, one can see the settlers’ rooftop “security” walkway to the more than three dozen Arab houses they have seized and now occupy in the area. Majda is well known in her neighborhood for arguing with Israeli soldiers in perfect Hebrew.