About the Author

Aziz Abu Sarah is the cofounder of Medji Tours and is a National Geographic Explorer and TED Fellow. He has published articles in the New York Times, National Geographic, Haaretz, the Jerusalem Post; was a speaker at a TED conference; and has appeared on CNN, Fox, and Al Jazeera, among others. Abu Sarah is the recipient of the Goldberg Prize for Peace in the Middle East from the Institute of International Education, SOLIDAR's Silver Rose Award, People to People International's Eisenhower Medallion, and the Eliav-Sartawi Award for Middle Eastern Journalism. He was named one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Jordan, won the Intercultural Innovation Award from the UN Alliance of Civilizations and BMW Group.