 This photograph marked the beginning of my work documenting Palestinian women activists in the West Bank. March 15, 2011 was the day of national unity demonstrations across Palestine. As I was taking pictures in the Ramallah, I noticed that many of the key figures there were women. I became aware that day of a unique group of women activists. In this photograph, we see a woman standing on the balcony of a building draped in a large banner. Two historic figures are depicted on the banner. On the left, Fatih Shkaki, founder of Islamic Jihad. And on the right, Yasir Arafat, leader of the PLO and the Fatah. This young woman had cut a hole in the banner to look out beyond Palestine's veteran male leaders. Looking up from street level, I noticed her lit by the late afternoon sun, holding her national flag, framed, albeit smaller in size, but side by side, with two of Palestine's iconic leaders. In order to stand there with them, she had to literally cut a place for herself in the national political fabric.