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- Hometown:
- Isfahan
- Relationship Status:
- Single
- My personal story:
- Born in Iran in 1984, I have been brought up agians a backdrop of a revolution, 8 years of war, and then a monologic political environment. I studied social sciences at the university of Tehran, hoping to come to an understanding of our social world. I moved on to study peace and coflict studies, at the European Peace University, in search of a way to translate those academic problematics into practice.
Coming from a critical theory orientiation, I beleive that a remarkable portion of social thought and social theory has emancipation and the concern for the human condition as their core problematic, and I hope to use peace study and practice as a bridge that connect this social theory to our everyday social actions.
Currently I am working on my Master's thesis on the topic of dialogue and also a dialogue project aiming to cultivate social inclusion. I would like to base my work in my knowledge of social theory, critical pedagogy, nonviolent communication, and the teachings of Rumi, Gandhi and Dr. King.
- Why I want peace:
- "The problem of humanization has always been man's (human's) central problem.... While both humanization and dehumanization are real alternatives, only the first one is Man's (human's) vocation, which is more anthropological rather than anthropocentric." Paulo Freire
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- Movies, books, music, hiking
- Something you didn't know about me:
- I eat the whole apple
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- Exchange of knowledge and information, creation of connection, cooperation for the cause of peace
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rhe un report??? all the world saw the damges happened in Gaza who cares, killing policy in the whole world who cares no one, some or little cares but there is no change in the policy of the world, nature propbles happend in this world who cares, ...
Dalia,
Thank you so much for doing the interviews. It's refreshing to hear an insiders point of view about Hamas and the economic conditions in Gaza. I will be praying for the removal of the blockade... and of course pressuring the US and Israel t...
"How can we include in our future the guys who hate us?"
Ask these haters, after all, we must determine who the haters are before we begin to answer the question.:
Pro-Israel Rally For Attacking Gaza, NYC, 1-11-09
I hear that they call themselve...
lindsey,
when people wish to link historic event in interpretative way that make them paint reality in a way it support their political view is normal. The pro-Israelis are doing it and the pro-Palestinians are doing it.
the way we can include t...
Dear Dalia,
Thank you for the interview and I wish to ask you for few things
1) I am bringing "normal life" pictures from Gaza and post them in "Gaza Today" I do that to keep the siege in our consciousness so I would be happy to post picture fro...
http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2009/11/life-under-blockade-gaza.html
I agree Oliver. It is interesting that honest attempts at communication are often greeted in places like this with jeers and patronising and derogatory presumptions about the perceived other's "real" intentions.
Yes, Paul, communication is crucial indeed. "Simplistic slogans" won't help in the long term, that's clear. But honest and clear communication requires courageousness on all sides. Slogans are, in my view, often (as you also imply above) an 'indiv...
Neri is right in pointing to the "root causes of the action". What is defined as 'terror' has diverse such root causes - religion/religious fundamentalism being one of them. And yes, Ahmed, fundamentalisms exist in a plethora of religions - Christ...
hello friend to be ...nissim dahan your so blessed for being you, but in your issue about your new blog we all the people born in denial in my own opinion cause every one of as lies and lying is the number word using of its people who need to lie ...
hello friend i agree for your issue cause upon i observe in this setuation in middle east or even in any part of the world eve been obsreve that there is always a big descremination for the islam between the christian yes its true cause in any ter...
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from"Frizzey"
LOVE TO YOU FROM JERUSALEM.
XXX
Nice to meet you
"We can only solve problems, when everyone is able,
to open his positive spirit.
his senseless arrogance & greed loses."
All together we canLove & Light
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The sting of all problems between Israeli and Palestinians lays in the Old City of Jerusalem. Her status has to be solved in such a way, that all parties fighting for control over her can agree upon.
On June 24, the ‘Big Hug’ will be hold in Jerusalem. Light workers from Israel, Palestine and from all over the world, ‘Lovers of Jerusalem’, will come together to bring warmth and energy to this city, embracing holding hands the Old City. If we bundle all our positive energies and bring these to Jerusalem, we can create peace to this exceptional place.
We are organizing the Big Hug to make the people aware –especially the Israeli and Palestinian inhabitants of Jerusalem- that there is a very shaped perspective for the city of Jerusalem as a city of peace: a new, undivided Jerusalem, as the capital of Palestine, Israel and at large.
Let go of the conflict concerning her command and dedicate the city to the Omnipresent. The Old City as a whole is His Temple. To give the walled Old City free to God, as a "Status Apart”, as an independent city, will be the most feasible way to come out the current impasse.
The Old City of Jerusalem must become an open city; a House of Prayer for all the Peoples. This perspective is written down in the Holy Books, this is the perspective we, as ‘Lovers of Jerusalem’ embrace as well as solution. But how many people does already notice this hopeful point of view?
What I saw in Jerusalem and also everywhere else where I meet Islamic and Jewish people is, that not so many persons really think about a future for Jerusalem. Most of the time, they stick with old ideas that the Old City of Jerusalem will always remain a part of Israel, or in opposite, that it will be absolutely a part of a new Palestinian state, as stolen land that has to be given back. With these visions, a future Jerusalem will be a divided city with an East Palestinian and West Israeli part, with barbed wire and checkpoints in between, like the situation of the city from 1948-1967. Or, coming closer to an agreement, people suggest -like proposed in the “Geneva Accord” in 2003- to make a complicated dividing of the Old City in a Israeli and Palestinian part. That will mean that the small alleys will be split by walls and barriers too. The idea that a future Jerusalem will become a divided city, is something that we have to prevent.
There are living about 250.000 Palestinian and 500.000 Israeli rather close together in one city. Do they want to make a separation of Jerusalem in parts or do they choose, deep in their hearts, for unity? So my best friends, it is our task to inform the whole city that there is an alternative for the Jerusalem of today.
All lovers of a united Jerusalem will come together to encircle and embrace the Old City of Jerusalem with love and devotion. We have to encourage all inhabitants of Jerusalem to join the coming Big Hug, with the idea of a New Jerusalem that might be realized with their support.
Rob Schrama Phone:0031-646608660 www.loversofjerusalem.org
Your work and personal story is very inspiring. I have seen videos of Isfahan online and it seems absolutely gorgeous. I truly hope to visit some day; it's disappointing to me that political issues between our governments make this more complicated than it should be. Are you based there now or are you working on your thesis in Europe? (or elsewhere?)
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