Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon

Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon believe peace is not a dream—it is a courageous choice.

Both have endured unimaginable tragedy. As a boy in Palestine, Aziz Abu Sarah lost his brother to injuries sustained at the hands of the Israeli military. Maoz Inon’s parents were both killed in the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023. The world would expect them to be enemies. Yet when Abu Sarah offered comfort to Inon after his parents’ death, their conversation sparked a friendship grounded in hope.

Now, Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon are co-founders and CEOs of InterAct International, a nonprofit that amplifies their message of peace to policymakers and citizens worldwide. They believe that sustainable peace can only be achieved with dialogue rooted in mutual vulnerability, honesty, and respect. In both Israel and Palestine, they have built grassroots coalitions of people who are transforming revenge into reconciliation, despair into hope, and trauma into healing.

In their New York Times bestseller The Future Is Peace, Abu Sarah and Inon, both former travel guides, take readers on a transformative weeklong journey across their sacred and bloodstained homelands. Facing competing narratives, they explore how compassion and unity can pull humanity back from the precipice of blind hatred and discover the mythic, political, and personal history that divides yet binds them and their peoples.

Abu Sarah and Inon have brought their urgent message to the United Nations, the European Parliament, the Pope, and the TED mainstage. Their transformative events ask, “How can we deal with conflict? What do we do when two histories and narratives collide?” They urge audiences to ask difficult questions, to be honest but respectful, and to strive for reconciliation over agreement.

Together, Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah believe that peace is inevitable, and that a future based on reconciliation and recognition, security and safety, and empathy and equality is within our reach.

Aziz Abu Sarah is a peacebuilder, entrepreneur, National Geographic Explorer, TED Fellow, and renowned speaker and trainer on conflict resolution and responsible travel. Aziz is the co-founder of MEJDI Tours, a travel company on a mission to transform tourism into a global force of citizen diplomacy. He has won numerous awards, including from the United Nations, Institute of International Education, and The Explorers Club. Aziz is consistently named one of the world’s 500 most influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Jordan. He has written opinion pieces for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Al-Quds, and Haaretz.

Maoz Inon is an Israeli peace activist and entrepreneur. He was honored with the prestigious Franco-German Human Rights Prize and the Shared Living Award from Abraham Initiatives. He has spoken on Capitol Hill, at U.S. universities, and the European Parliament. He has written pieces for The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Haaretz, and more. He has founded several peace-focused initiatives within Israel and the Middle East, including the Jesus Trail, Fauzi Azar Inn, and Abraham Hostel & Tour brands.

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