January 11, 2016
St. Norbert Times, the student-run newspaper for St. Norbert College, highlighted an upcoming trip with MEJDI Tours that students and community members can join. Dr. Robert Pyne, one of the group leaders and planners for this trip, states – “Along with our colleagues in International Education, we believe there is no real substitute for seeing places and…
December 3, 2015
Group leader, Carla Kopf, wrote the following article for Temple Isaiah’s December newsletter…
October 30, 2015
MEJDI Tours was featured by Green Travel, a travel blog from Brazil that highlights responsible tourism. For any of our friends who can read Portuguese, check it out and let us know what you think! Click here to read the article For more information… Interesting in traveling with us? Check out our list of open…
October 28, 2015
MEJDI Co-Founder Aziz Abu Sarah just published a new article in Haaretz entitled I Was a Palestinian stone-thrower. Here’s why I stopped. In this article, Aziz shares how two people close to him continue to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians even during tough times. Aziz states – …Muhammad and Sarah remind me that I am also a…
October 12, 2015
MEJDI Co-Founder Aziz Abu Sarah was featured in an article from the Euphrates Institute, where they shared his story and a video to his interview in the movie HUMANS. In the article, author Janessa Wilder states I so admire Aziz’s transformation and the courageous path he has chosen to spread the lessons he’s learned as far and…
October 6, 2015
MEJDI Co-Founder Aziz Abu Sarah was featured in the movie HUMAN, where he shared his story of learning about and be-friending Israelis for the first time. HUMAN is described as – HUMAN is a collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be…
October 1, 2015
Religion News Service recently interviewed MEJDI Co-Founder Aziz Abu Sarah and wrote an article about the unique trips MEJDI offers. In the article, entitled More than Tourism: Holy Land trips advance peacemaking mission, they spoke with past group leaders Pastor David Schmigdall and Pastor John Moyle about their experiences traveling with MEJDI. Moyle states: “The core of what…
August 31, 2015
University of Nebraska Kearney will be bring students to Israel and Palestine in 2016 to learn more about the conflict. In the Kearney Hub, the University’s newsletter, they interview professors Chuck Rowling and William Aviles to learn more about this study abroad experience. “One of the biggest things (that) we wanted to do was to…
August 10, 2015
MEJDI co-founder and 2014 TED Fellow, Aziz Abu Sarah, had his TED talk posted in January 2015. Since then, his video has reached over 1 million views! If you haven’t seen it yet…
July 8, 2015
This past winter, MEJDI Co-Founder Aziz Abu Sarah spoke at 18×18 ChaiPowered’s Limmud Conference in Warwick, UK. In this talk, Aziz discusses how travel can change the world.