Aziz Abu Sarah

Senior Research Associate

Aziz Abu Sarah, a Palestinian who has spent the last ten years working as a peace-building practitioner, recently moved to the DC area to serve as the Palestinian chairman for the Bereaved Families Forum in Israel-Palestine, a group of 500 Israeli and Palestinian Bereaved Families who work for peace. Aziz is also a lecturer and has spoken in hundreds of churches, synagogues and mosques on interfaith dialogue and on the role of religion in reconciliation. He has also lectured for countless international organizations and universities, including the European Parliament, Georgetown University, Columbia, Princeton, Brandeis, Yale, and Fordham. Aziz is a Co-Founder of Al-Tariq Institute, which runs projects in the West Bank for democracy, non-violent education, and civil society. He co-hosted "Changing Directions," a bilingual radio show at All for Peace radio for three years, interviewing people who made a change toward peace. Aziz has an educational background in Biblical stud
ies and professional background in tourism management.

Aziz is highly involved in the Israeli-Palestinian peace movement and, as a result of his work, he has been honored to receive the Silver Rose Award from the European Parliament, the Goldberg Prize for Peace in the Middle East from the Institute of International Education, and the Eisenhower Medallion from People to People International.

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