In The News
MEJDI has attracted much media attention for its innovative approach to touring the Middle East. In addition, many MEJDI clients have written articles about their experiences after returning home. Some of the most recent stories include:
- Seeing Both Sides of the Holy Land: Tour Company Provides Israeli and Palestinian Perspectives (The Jewish Daily Forward features MEJDI and its peacebuilding efforts.)
- First Intercultural Innovation Award winner mentored by UNWTO (United Nations Alliance of Civilizations writes about MEJDI winning the first Intercultural Innovation Award.)
- Tours Offer Balanced View of Middle East Relations (Fetzer Institute reviews our work)
- Palestinian, Jew give both sides on joint Jerusalem tours (CNN report on MEJDI tours)
- Holy Land tours as a new tool in peacebuilding (Search for Common Ground News)
- From Revenge to Reconciliation (Video of Aziz Abu Sarah speaking at a National Geographic lecture.)
- First Person: How This Palestinian Made Friends With Israelis (Four-Part Video Series with Aziz Abu Sarah and National Geographic)
- “Paix au Moyen-Orient, quelles retombées sur le tourisme ?”; “Peace in the Middle East Could Tourism be the Answer?” (Q & A with Marc Gopin on Moyen-Orient.fr, a French online publication about the Middle East)
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict – discussion with Marc Gopin: Part 1 on economic peace & justice (Q & A with Marc Gopin on the Examiner.com)
- “Monash Studies Abroad” (Monash University program for its MEJDI tour)
- “Nothing Human is Foreign” (Monash University professor’s blog about her experience)
- “Israel and Palestine Blog” (Saint Lawrence University students blog about their academic tour)
- “Senior Year Experience on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” (Saint Lawrence University story about its MEJDI program)
- “Evanston Rabbi takes congregation to the West Bank and East Jerusalem” (Radio station WBEZ report on MEJDI synagogue tour)
- “Israel Inside/Out: Perspectives and Prisms” (Janet Rodgers of Forbes writes about our National Geographic Expeditions tour)
- Israeli and Palestinian Join Forces to Offer Tours with Two Viewpoints (The Toronto Star writes about our dual narrative approach)
- Videos of Aziz for the Journeys of Belonging project
- “While In Israel, Obama Should Hit the Pubs” (Miriam Elman mentions Aziz Abu Sarah’s peacebuilding efforts in her opinion article on Syracuse.com)
MEJDI co-founders, Aziz Abu Sarah and Marc Gopin often contribute to media outlets and journals. Here are some of their recent articles:
- “Equality in action: A conversation at the checkpoint” (Aziz contributes to+972 magazine–an independent, blog-based web magazine–dealing with life and politics in Israel and Palestine, as well as the wider geopolitical context.)
- “Holy Land tours a new tool in peacebuilding” (Aziz, with fellow MEJDI staff member Talia Salem, contribute to Common Ground News Service to weigh in on the philosophy behind MEJDI tours, and the extraordinary impact these tours have on all involved.)
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