Posted by Malia Everette in Citizen Diplomacy, Middle East, Trip Participant Stories on 20th October, 2011 | No Comments
Ken Yale, Reality Tours Palestine & Israel Past Participant, shares his reflections on exactly the kind of transformative experience that keeps us here at Reality Tours ever motivated to continue our work to have you “Meet the People, Learn the Facts, and Make a Difference”!
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Posted by Admin in Middle East, Trip Participant Stories on 28th June, 2011 | No Comments
A moving, honest piece written by a Reality Tours participants currently writing from Iran. She shares her thoughts about what it’s like to fall in love with a place in your mind, and how the fear that surfaces once you decide to travel there.
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Middle East, Trip Participant Stories on 28th June, 2011 | 2 Comments
What happens when an American young woman visits Iran for the first time? You can find out as you follow the adventures of Alexa, a Tufts University student majoring in Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic who is en route to Iran.
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Posted by Corina Nolet in Middle East, Trip Participant Stories on 24th August, 2010 | No Comments
Part three in the ‘Journey to Iran’ series. The beautiful city of Shiraz, known for its gardens, nightingales, roses, wine, and poets is also known for being a very liberal city in Iran. And while unfortunately, the wine is no longer to be found, poetry abounds here…
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Posted by Corina Nolet in Middle East, Trip Participant Stories on 18th August, 2010 | 1 Comment
Part two in the ‘Journey to Iran’ series. A visit to an amazing desert town that is one of the very oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world (about 7,000 years). Because it was so isolated and dry, it was never made into a capital city, and thus was evidently never overrun and destroyed by foreign armies.
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Posted by Corina Nolet in Middle East, Trip Participant Stories on 10th August, 2010 | 1 Comment
Deborah James advocated for Fair Trade at Global Exchange from 1993 – 2005, and now serves as a member of the Global Exchange Board. She is currently the Director of International Programs at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. She recently participated in the the Citizen Diplomacy Delegation to Iran with Reality Tours and in a series of posts, she shares with us her experience.
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