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Julie Younes, Program Director, PeacePlayers International – Middle East (PPI-ME). Prior to joining PPI-ME, she served as Programs Officer and as the Assistant to the Director of the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. Ms. Younes graduated summa cum laude from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, where she double majored in International Studies and French, with a concentration in Middle Eastern Studies.
A Step on the Path to Peace: How Basketball is Uniting Arab and Jewish Youth in Jerusalem
Basketball is a game where all five players need to share the ball. If it is played with great teamwork, the sum of the parts is greater than the individual. It’s a great forum for building trust. A lot of the game happens with things you can’t see. Communication and trust with teammates is the key. It seems to me that the same can be said of peacemaking.
–R.C. Buford, General Manager of the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs[1]
