New York Times Book Review by Lisa Selin Davis — I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT THAT WAY How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times Guzmán, who works in communications at the nonprofit Braver Angels, which seeks to depolarize America, sees conflicting ideas and ideals not as the end but the beginning. Her book, “I Never Thought of It That Way,” is a manual for…

Aziz Abu Sarah of Mejdi Tours — and Founding Committee Member of Heart of a Nation — Profiled in New York Times “I used to live in Washington, D.C., which is a very segregated city, especially on a class level, and I realized that my friends and I wouldn’t venture…

By Hussein Ibish, PhD Russia’s invasion of Ukraine poses conundrums for almost every country in the Middle East. None stand to gain from Vladimir Putin’s wanton aggression in Europe. …

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“If Palestinians and Israelis do not humanize one another, if they don’t see the real person on the other side, you can’t persuade anybody of a political solution.” WATCH THE VIDEO: HIGHLIGHTED QUOTES: “Mekudeshet is an independent cultural NGO, but really we’re a crazy, crazy, experiment, creating original art and music that tries to…

New Day’s Lyric by Amanda Gorman May this be the day We come together. Mourning, we come to mend, Withered, we come to weather, Torn, we come to tend, Battered, we come to better. Tethered by this year of yearning, We are learning That though we weren’t ready for this, …