Aziz Abu Sarah: For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism?
Aziz Abu Sarah: Để thêm cảm thông, cần thêm nhiều...khách du lịch
Aziz Abu Sarah helps people break down cultural and historical barriers through tourism. Full bio
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and a peacebuilder,
là một sứ giả hòa bình,
không phải như thế.
I remember watching television
a fun thing to do.
and threw rocks,
to throw rocks at Israeli cars.
những chiếc ô tô của người Israel.
my neighbors' cars. (Laughter)
vào ô tô nhà hàng xóm.
about my patriotism.
với lòng yêu nước của tôi cả.
and I know what you're thinking:
bạn đang nghĩ:
what the heck happened to you?"
cái quái gì xảy ra với anh vậy?"
of throwing stones.
to confess that he threw stones,
vì không chịu thú nhận,
qua đời ngay khi được thả.
he was released from prison.
là trả thù.
Hebrew to get a job,
để có được một công việc,
in that classroom
who were not soldiers.
những người Do Thái không phải lính.
like the fact that I love country music,
đơn giản, như nhạc đồng quê,
for Palestinians.
với người Palestine.
that we have a wall of anger,
bị chia cách bởi một bức tường
that separates us.
what happens to me.
với mình không quan trọng
mà tôi giải quyết nó.
to dedicate my life
cống hiến đời mình
that separate people.
but also media and education,
cả truyền thông và giáo dục nữa,
really, can tourism change things?
liệu du lịch có thể
Có!
to bring down those walls
để xóa bỏ bức tường ngăn,
of connecting with each other
aims to connect people,
với mục tiêu kết nối mọi người
we would have two tour guides,
chúng tôi có 2 hướng dẫn viên
cùng dẫn các chuyến tham quan,
guiding the trips together,
and archaeology and conflict
qua khảo cổ xen lẫn các xung đột
with a friend named Kobi --
người bạn có tên Kobi
the trip was in Jerusalem --
tới Jerusalem,
a Palestinian refugee camp,
đến một trại tị nạn, ở Palestine
Bà rất tuyệt.
food called maqluba.
maqluba, nghĩa là "lật lên lật xuống".
và lật nó lên xuống.
and you flip it upside-down.
Israeli and Palestinian musicians,
người Israel và Palestine
I'll teach you later.
tôi sẽ dạy bạn sau.
they did not want to leave.
relationships still exist.
vẫn được duy trì.
if the one billion people
nếu một tỉ người này
every year travel like this,
mỗi năm,
from one side to another,
từ nơi này đến nơi khác,
of their buses of people and cultures,
những con người, những nền văn hóa
a Muslim group from the U.K.
nhóm người Muslim từ nước Anh
of an Orthodox Jewish family,
Do Thái chính thống,
dinners, that Sabbath dinner,
bữa tối Sabbath,
which is a Jewish food, a stew,
một món hầm,
of realizing, after a while,
their families came out
gia đình họ bắt nguồn
for your Facebook.
cho trang Facebook của bạn.
du lịch để làm thay đổi thế giới.
to change your travel.
everywhere to change the world.
để thay đổi thế giới.
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