Aziz Abu Sarah: For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism?
عزیز ابو ساره: برای افزایش قدرت تحمل دیگران، نیاز بیشتری به ... گردشگری داریم؟
Aziz Abu Sarah helps people break down cultural and historical barriers through tourism. Full bio
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and a peacebuilder,
و ایجاد کننده صلح هستم،
I remember watching television
که در تلویزیون مردم را میدیدم
a fun thing to do.
and threw rocks,
to throw rocks at Israeli cars.
را به خودروهای اسرائیلی ها پرتاب می کردم.
my neighbors' cars. (Laughter)
about my patriotism.
and I know what you're thinking:
میدانم که شما چی فکر می کنید:
what the heck happened to you?"
واست چه اتفاقی افتاده که دیگه نیستی؟ "
of throwing stones.
to confess that he threw stones,
سنگ پرتاب کرده کتک خورد.
he was released from prison.
Hebrew to get a job,
in that classroom
who were not soldiers.
like the fact that I love country music,
چرا موسیقی محلی را دوست داریم با هم مرتبط شدیم
for Palestinians.
that we have a wall of anger,
که بین ما دیواری از خشم،
that separates us.
what happens to me.
to dedicate my life
that separate people.
but also media and education,
همچنین رساناها و آموزش هم هست،
really, can tourism change things?
می تواند چیزی را عوض کند؟
to bring down those walls
فرو ریختن این دیوارهاست
of connecting with each other
aims to connect people,
we would have two tour guides,
ما دو نفر راهنما گردشگری داریم،
guiding the trips together,
که سفرها را با همدیگر راهبری می کنند،
and archaeology and conflict
و باستان شناسی و جنگ
with a friend named Kobi --
دوستی به نام کبوی اداره می کردم.
the trip was in Jerusalem --
سفر در اورشلیم بود-
a Palestinian refugee camp,
اردوگاه پناهندگان فلسطینی،
food called maqluba.
and you flip it upside-down.
Israeli and Palestinian musicians,
نوازندگان اسرائیل و فلسطین ایجاد کردیم،
I'll teach you later.
they did not want to leave.
نمیخواستند آنجا را ترک کنند.
relationships still exist.
if the one billion people
every year travel like this,
from one side to another,
of their buses of people and cultures,
a Muslim group from the U.K.
of an Orthodox Jewish family,
dinners, that Sabbath dinner,
which is a Jewish food, a stew,
یهودیست را خوردند
of realizing, after a while,
their families came out
for your Facebook.
to change your travel.
[ معنای ] سفر خود را تغییر دهید.
everywhere to change the world.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Aziz Abu Sarah - Entrepreneur + educatorAziz Abu Sarah helps people break down cultural and historical barriers through tourism.
Why you should listen
When Aziz Abu Sarah was a boy, his older brother was arrested on charges of throwing stones. He was taken to prison and beaten — and died of his injuries. Sarah grew up angry, bitter and wanting revenge. But when later in life he met, for the first time, Jews who were not soldiers, Sarah had an epiphany: Not only did they share his love of small things, namely country music, but coming face to face with the “enemy” compelled him to find ways to overcome hatred, anger and fear.
Sarah founded MEJDI Tours to send tourists to Jerusalem with two guides, one Jewish and one Palestinian, each offering a different history and narrative of the city. Sarah tells success stories of tourists from the US visiting a Palestinian refugee camp and listening to joint Arab and Jewish bands play music, and of a Muslim family from the UK sharing Sabbath dinner with a Jewish family and realizing that 100 years ago, their people came from the same town in Northern Africa. MEJDI is expanding its service to Iran, Turkey, Ireland and other regions suffering from cultural conflict. If more of the world’s 1 billion tourists were to engage with real people living real lives, argues Sarah, it would be a powerful force for shattering sterotypes and promoting understanding, friendship and peace.
Aziz Abu Sarah | Speaker | TED.com