Aziz Abu Sarah: For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism?
Aziz Abu Sarah: Agar toleransi lebih berkembang, kita memerlukan lebih banyak ... pariwisata?
Aziz Abu Sarah helps people break down cultural and historical barriers through tourism. Full bio
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and a peacebuilder,
dan penggalang perdamaian,
tidak bermula dari situ.
I remember watching television
saya ingat menonton televisi
melempar batu,
a fun thing to do.
sepertinya asyik melakukan hal ini.
and threw rocks,
dan melemparkan batu,
to throw rocks at Israeli cars.
melemparkan batu ke mobil orang Israel.
my neighbors' cars. (Laughter)
mobil tetangga. (Tertawa)
about my patriotism.
semangat patriotisme saya.
and I know what you're thinking:
dan saya tahu apa yang Anda pikirkan:
what the heck happened to you?"
of throwing stones.
karena melempar batu.
to confess that he threw stones,
bahwa dia melempar batu,
dia mengalami luka dalam
he was released from prison.
membalas dendam.
ketika saya berumur 18 tahun.
bahasa Ibrani untuk mencari kerja,
Hebrew to get a job,
in that classroom
untuk pertama kalinya
who were not soldiers.
yang bukan tentara.
like the fact that I love country music,
for Palestinians.
bagi orang Palestina.
that we have a wall of anger,
oleh dinding kemarahan,
that separates us.
yang memisahkan kami.
what happens to me.
terjadi pada saya tidaklah penting.
bagaimana saya menghadapinya.
to dedicate my life
untuk mengabdikan hidup saya
that separate people.
yang membatasi manusia.
but also media and education,
namun juga melalui media dan pendidikan,
really, can tourism change things?
mampukah pariwisata mengubah keadaan?
Ya.
to bring down those walls
terbaik untuk meruntuhkan dinding itu,
of connecting with each other
yang berkesinambungan
saya mendirikan Mejdi Tours,
untuk menghubungkan manusia,
aims to connect people,
model tur kami,
we would have two tour guides,
kami mengirim dua pemandu wisata,
guiding the trips together,
untuk memandu secara bersama-sama,
and archaeology and conflict
latar belakang arkeologi dan konflik
dengan teman bernama Kobi --
with a friend named Kobi --
yang berkunjung ke Yerusalem --
the trip was in Jerusalem --
a Palestinian refugee camp,
sebuah kamp pengungsi Palestina,
hidangan lezat ini.
Dia hebat.
food called maqluba.
bernama maqluba.
and you flip it upside-down.
lalu dibalik.
band gabungan musisi Israel dan Palestina,
Israeli and Palestinian musicians,
I'll teach you later.
akan saya ajarkan nanti.
they did not want to leave.
karena mereka tidak ingin pergi.
relationships still exist.
hubungan itu tetap terjalin.
if the one billion people
every year travel like this,
keliling dunia seperti ini,
from one side to another,
dari satu tempat ke tempat lain,
of their buses of people and cultures,
dari jendela bus mereka,
dengan orang-orang.
a Muslim group from the U.K.
sekelompok Muslim dari Inggris
of an Orthodox Jewish family,
dinners, that Sabbath dinner,
which is a Jewish food, a stew,
semur ala orang Yahudi,
of realizing, after a while,
beberapa waktu kemudian,
their families came out
keluarga mereka berasal
for your Facebook.
to change your travel.
cara Anda berwisata.
di seluruh dunia,
everywhere to change the world.
tempat untuk mengubah dunia.
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.
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