Ari Alexander
Ari Alexander, an American Jew, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in American History and recently completed two Masters degrees in the United Kingdom as a 2001 Marshall Scholar: an MA in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from the Queen's University of Belfast, with a thesis comparing the educational systems in post-war Beirut and contemporary Belfast; and a MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford, where his research focused on Iraqi Jews living in the period between World War I and World War II. During his graduate studies, Alexander lived and studied in Beirut, Damascus, and Jerusalem. He currently is the Co-directoralong with Maria Ali-Adibof Children of Abraham, a web-based dialogue project that works with Muslim and Jewish teenagers around the world. He has previously served as a counselor and facilitator at two conflict resolution camps, Seeds of Peace International Camp and Face to Face/Faith to Faith, in addition to working with Jewish teenagers in United Synagogue Youth and at the Lauder Camp in Szarvas, Hungary.