He grew up without citizenship, without a passport, and with a burning rage after his brother died after being tortured in a military cell. Then, at eighteen, Aziz Abu-Sarah did something almost nobody in his position would do: he walked twenty minutes to the other side of Jerusalem and started learning Hebrew. His world opened up.
That one decision, to embrace what he had been taught to fear, runs through everything Aziz has done since. He guided tourists through the Old City at nine years old with no English. He’s been hospitalised for panic attacks after his experiences in war zones. His way of looking at the world brought him a reception with two popes and a commendation for the Nobel Peace Prize.
On Travel That Made Me, Aziz tells Rajan Datar how he turned some of his darkest places into a way of seeing the world, one where curiosity beats fear, and crossing uncrossable borders is a practice, not a leap. It’s a lesson in how peace gets built: one step at a time, starting from the moment you leave home.
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