Meet some recent CB participants:
Joseph Hodali
I am 20 years old studying Computer Information System. I’m with Crossing Borders for two years now, since I like the idea of bringing youth from Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Germany together. I like sports especially extreme sports, basketball, football and swimming. My interest in journalism started with Crossing Borders. CB gave me great opportunities that I would not have got any where else.
David Kreuer
I am 24 years old I’ve been a student of Middle Eastern Studies and Computer Science for four years. I enjoy sports, music, and travelling. I hope as naïve as it might sound to contribute to a more peaceful future & a better world
Ghassan Khoury
I am a 20 year old student starting my third year in medicine this fall. I enjoy playing and listening to music. I have been playing the piano for 12 years. I like to entertain people and make them laugh all the time that’s why after spending 10 days with 30 students from all over the world I made friends with all of them and even more.
Ashira Ramadan
I am 22 years old graduated with BA in Radio-TV and film studies I work as a program coordinator and a journalist. I enjoy travelling around the world and going on adventures and experiencing new things from learning to say hi to learning how to hitchhike and squat in the streets. I love my freedom very much and will keep fighting for it every day of my life.
Bakria Mawasi
I’m 18 years old looking forward to start my academic studies in Communication and International Relations. I like drawing and painting. I’ve joined Crossing Borders 3 years ago with hope to make the Middle East a better place to live in. It has been a memorable marvellous experience that will follow me in every step in my life. Thank you CB for all the love and peace.
Sophie Appl
I am 23 years old and I study psychology and intercultural communication. My aim is to deeply understand the human being and its interactions. Why do some people live in peace, and some others in war? I like dancing, poetry and literature - authors such as Erich Fromm and Haruki Murakami. I love to travel the world and to meet people with different backgrounds.
Ofir Mitrani
I’m 24 years old. I don’t really believe in any religion, I don’t have any flag or hymn that represents me. I don’t really have home - wherever I’m going to sleep is my home. I am fighting for human rights and for social equality but I don’t really believe in politic.
Heba Shmali
I am 23 years old I studied law and today working as a lawyer. I write articels and literature at a local newspaper and like to read a lot .I fight for human rights. I like Al –Oud music a lot especially for the Iraqi Naser Shamma. I dream of being a judge or a member of the parliament or a famous woman who can make a change.
Shiran Zehavi
I am 19 years old I love to draw and I want to be an animator. For now I work as a graphic designer. I am also an actress I work in a theatre for kids for 13 years now!
Yeela Lahav-Raz
I am 26 years old, happily married for the last 10 month. I live in a big city and have a dog named Tola which I love. I’m an anthropologist who’s writing now my final thesis. I also work at a market research company as a researcher. My hopes for the future are to study my PhD in the US and to raise my children in my home-land. And I hope that until that time there will be peace and quite in the whole region.
Serene Najdi
I’m 19 years old I study Information Technology. My hobbies are playing sports especially basketball and listening to music, I also enjoy travelling all over the world and communicating with other people. I hope one day I will become a good journalist and hope to live in peace for the rest of my life and let my children live in peace too.
Angela Verweyen
I am a 24-year-old student of Political Science. I am interested in foreign languages and cultures and I love travelling more than anything else! In the rest of my free time, I am into sports (especially climbing, jogging and Yoga), movies and reading. For the future, I hope to find a job in a cultural institute abroad where I can expose my culture to the local people.
Omar AlHadidi
I am 21 years old, I study industrial engineering and I look forward to having my PhD degree, I’ll start my own work institution, a regional industrial company ,that’s because I like travelling around the world. I’m into most sports, especially ping pong and football. I have been a member of crossing borders for 3 years now.
Ahmad Al-Arabiat
I am 22 years old, I am studying industrial engineering and will graduate next year. I like all kinds of sports especially football I am interested in computer programmes. My dream is that all humans in the world would live in peace and happiness.
Maya Nakagawa
I am 23 years old I love meeting people from all over the world and for that I speak Russian, English and one other language. I have travelled to about 25 courtiers. I am studying psychology, sociology and development studies at university.
Lena Nadji
I’m almost 17 years old and I’m a senior at high school. I want to learn to play on the violin as soon as I enter college. I hope I’ll do something important in my life so that people would always remember me.
Zena Cubain
I am a 21 year old student in university I study nutrition and I am graduating next semester. Its my first time with Crossing Borders and hopefully not my last, for it was a very fruitful experience.
Annira Busch
I am 22 years old and I study European Studies, a mixture of politics, law, media science and languages. I like travelling; encountering all sorts of different people from various cultural backgrounds .I think dialogue is the best method for understanding. Other things that I enjoy are being with my family and friends, music, theatre and reading. Being an idealist, I hope I will be able to contribute to a better world in the future.
Itamar Harel
I am 25 years old. Started my M.A. in life sciences a year ago specializing in Developmental Biology. I have a boyfriend for the last seven months. I travel a lot around the world and love every minute of it.
Julie Peitersen
I am 33 years old, I study Middle Eastern relations. I love to swim, read books mainly sci-fi and fashion magazines, I enjoy listening to music, but most of my free time I spend taking care of my lovely daughter Molise.
Konstantin G. Furman
I’m a philosophy-interested, literature-loving, law-studying 20 years old David Bowie fan. I hope to use my future education to work for Amnesty International, Ethics Counsel or the EU. I guess there is no guarantees, but it sure would be swell!
Omer Hakim
I am 25 years old I work as an educator and believe in education. I dream a lot of the good life and I want to see the world.
Rania Makhlouf
I’m 23 years old finishing my first degree in biology science. I have my own radio show called “la Clinica de la soleil”. I wish proceeding studying medicine, having my family as always together happy and comfort, and seeing the world blossoming, no wars no fatal diseases. I had the most funniest10 days with Crossing Borders meeting wonderful people from all over the world. I gained lots of experience through this period in all aspects mainly making true friends among the participants.
Johannes Frische
I’m 22 years old studying Middle Eastern Studies and History. I became familiar with the Middle East and its people through several journeys. Last year I took part in Crossing Borders Capacity Building Training, this year I was a coordinator. In contrast to the current situation of escalating violence and short-sighted policy in the Middle East, I consider “Crossing Borders” to be a rare and exceptional coming -together programme for youth who usually don’t have the chance to meet.
Amjad Shoughry
I am a 17 years old I graduated this year from high school, majoring in physics and chemistry. I am a veteran of Crossing Borders, and attending this seminar was a memorable experience for me. The seminar provided me with useful skills which will later help me in my professional and academic life. My future dream is to attend the medical school and become a surgeon.
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