Random facts about Manar:

From a very young age, I dreamt of being an astronaut. When I finished high school, I applied for a scholarship in the UAE to study applied physics and astronomy. I was accepted, but a condition for the scholarship was that I had to be in the UAE within a month. In the summer of 2015, there was no chance to travel outside Gaza, either from the Rafah or Erez crossings, so I wasn’t able to claim my scholarship. This led me to choose my second passion, English literature.I also am extremely interested in community service and spend most of my spare time teaching English to orphans. Now, I dream of establishing an orphanage to take care of such children here in Gaza.If you ask my family, “Who is Manar?”, they might joke that she is a kind of weirdo who spends most of her time practicing yoga and discussing metaphysical power. I hope to visit Spain to see the diversity of cultures there. I like to read Spanish literature and one of my favorite works is the epic poem, "Cantar de Mio Cid,” written in 1140. Since I feel most alive in winter, and am obsessed with museums, I would love to visit Saint Petersburg in Russia, which is home to more than 200 museums, many of them in historic buildings. There are two persons I want to meet: The first is Al Pacino from "The Godfather" and the second is Chaker Khazaal, the Palestinian-Canadian writer.