Aziz Abu Sarah, CRDC Director of Middle East Projects
This fall, The Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (CRDC) proudly welcomed new Director of Middle East Projects, Aziz Abu Sarah. Before coming to CRDC, Abu Sarah,-a Palestinian, born and raised in Jerusalem-was heavily involved in the Palestinian-Israeli peace movements. He has chaired an organization of Israeli and Palestinian bereaved families called The Parents Circle-Bereaved Families Forum, which works for reconciliation, co-hosted a bilingual radio show on Radio All for Peace in Jerusalem, and published articles in Haaretz, Alarabiya, The Daily Star and Middle East online-among others.
In addition to serving as a lecturer on issues surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,-Abu Sarah is collaborating with Dr. Marc Gopin and Scott Cooper on initiatives advancing a project entitled The Arab Jewish Alliance. Through mediums such as Citizen Diplomacy Tours to the Middle East and “Peace Steps”-a video podcast- his hope is to help "facilitate the transformation of people-to-people relationships in an effort to create a critical mass for social change in the Arab-Jewish relationship.” Abu Sarah was recently awarded the Eliav-Sartawi Award for Journalism from Search for Common Ground and the Goldberg Award for peace in the Middle East from the International Institute for Education.
To learn more Abu Sarah, contact CRDC at [email protected] or visit http://crdc.gmu.edu