I don't have proper places to run.

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.

Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn't force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.