Complex sentence: He describes his own ethnic background as both Jordanian and Palestinian, and an interviewer states that his father was from Madaba, Jordan, and according to him, his maternal grandmother "lost her home" in Ein Karem outside of Jerusalem in 1948.
Split into simpler sentences: He describes his own ethnic background as both Jordanian and Palestinian, and an interviewer states that his father was from Madaba, Jordan. His maternal grandmother "lost her home" in Ein Karem outside of Jerusalem in 1948.