In a center where we run Peace Talk simulations and deal with conflict resolution, we find ourselves now on the same side facing a common enemy while dealing with our own personal thoughts and feelings. The question is, after this is all over, can we maintain this empathetic mindset when dealing with the conflict between the two nations?
Read moreA Special Message to the Graduating Class of 2020
I would like to extend a sudden but earned congratulations to all of the graduates. I know that this isn’t how you expected to finish your time here. Usually, graduation is a time filled with mixed emotions of both excitement and uncertain anticipation of what comes next, but I hope through all of what you may be feeling right now you know that you are part of a historical moment in time that will change the world. As scary as all that sounds, I am confident that you will find the opportunity to lead the charge into a new phase of society.
Read moreCoronavirus Outbreak: Personal Thoughts by Moha
The Coronavirus outbreak has done what politicians and activists have been unable to do. It has sparked an extraordinarily high level of cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis where both sides are working side by side battling this pandemic to save lives.
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EMIS Peace Talks Simulation, students around the table negotiating
Until I turned 28, my interactions with Israelis were only with the soldiers at the checkpoints in the West Bank. Growing up, I never had the chance to have a discussion with anyone from the Israeli side. My first positive interaction with the “other side” was when I came back home from studying abroad and did an internship at an Israeli startup in Tel-Aviv. During my time studying to get my MBA at Tel-Aviv University, I became aware of the Charney Resolution Center.
Read moreEMIS Students Mediation Courses at Gevim
Another round of mediation courses at the Gevim group was opened last month with 15 EMIS students. Gevim teaches negotiation and dialogue by improving the ability to achieve goals together with empowering long-term relationships.
Read moreStudent Peace Talks Simulation at Tel Aviv Ironi Aleph
Ironi Aleph is a liberal, arts-focused high school located in the heart of Tel Aviv. On Friday, February 14th around 60 students from both Tel Aviv and various cities, villages, and refugee camps in the West Bank met up to discuss one simple yet complex question,
Read more“What can we do tomorrow morning to solve the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict.”
EMIS Visual Arts Students' Visit to Umm Al-Fahem Art Museum
Students with Hanan Armaly Haddad’s piece, Restoration.
On Sunday, January 26th, twenty EMIS Visual Arts students set out on their last art trip for the year accompanied by their teacher Shlomit Kanfi to Umm Al-Fahem, the largest Arab city in Israel. The students were welcomed at the museum with freshly brewed coffee and tea, lovely weather, and Mr Said Abu Shakra. Mr Abu Shakra, the dynamic founder and director of Umm Al-Fahem Art Museum and the winner of the Shulamit Aloni Prize in December of 2019.
Read more'International Holocaust Remembrance Day' by CRC Ambassador Moha Alshawamreh
“Being a young Palestinian born in the Middle-East, I kept hearing people around me and on TV denying the Holocaust, claiming it’s a hoax among many other things. At the time before 2006, I had no idea what it was and, because we had no internet, I had no way of searching and finding out for myself.”
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