For decades across the Middle East and North Africa, Arab states and Islamist movements have employed brainwashing, violent intimidation, and draconian “anti-normalization laws” to arrest human relations between their societies and Israeli citizens.

Israeli author Yossi Klein Halevi’s 2018 book, Letters to my Palestinian Neighbor, combined an earnest, introspective and sometimes self-critical narration of Israelis’ shared identity with a message of curiosity and empathy for Palestinians.

Amid Iraq’s political crisis and collapsed healthcare sector, Iraqi and Israeli doctors came together to envision partnerships that place human life above ideology.

To support development in Syria’s liberated northeast, the Arab Council helps local engineers remove landmines and boost agricultural yields — with help from an unlikely teacher.

As part of its Program for Learning in Partnership, the CPC convenes Iraqi, Israeli, and Syrian experts in their region’s water scarcity crisis to jumpstart cooperation.

CPC’s Samuel Tadros gathered Iraqi, Tunisian, and Israeli education specialists to exchange views about the state of education reform efforts across the region.