Ep. 45: Challenges for Education: Creating Safer and Braver Spaces in Schools to Talk About the Conflict II (Mohammed Ibrahim & Sapir Huberman – Independent Dialogue Facilitators)

Guests: Mohamed Ibrahim – Political Scientist and Educator; recipient of the Flechtheim Award for Democracy & Human Rights 2015 Sapir Huberman – Mediator, Curator, Scholar & Educator Host: Efe Bio: Mohamed Ibrahim is a political scientist specializing in international cooperation. For over 15 years, he has led workshops on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Israeli colleagues and works as an interreligious and intercultural trainer in Jewish-Muslim and Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. He has facilitated workshops for the Ehrlich-Ludwig-Studienwerk and Avicenna Studienwerk and moderated a Jewish-Muslim discussion group at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon and raised in Germany, he received the Flechtheim Prize for Democracy and Human Rights in 2015 with Shemi Shabat for his dialogue work. He is one of the most respected voices for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue in Germany. Sapir Huberman is an Israeli mediator, curator, scholar, and cultural educator who develops educational programs on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jewish history, and Jewish life. She is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Cultural Studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Born in Tel Aviv as a descendant of Holocaust survivors, she has lived in Berlin for several years. The recent escalation of the Middle East conflict is deeply personal for her, as her siblings survived the October 7 massacre in a safe room in Kibbutz Beeri. Together, Sapir Huberman and Mohamed create dialogue spaces that foster understanding through multiperspectivity, enabling nuanced engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They listen and reflect with care, cultivating spaces that hold the conflicting emotions arising from vastly different lived experiences.In this episode: We speak with Mohamed Ibrahim and Sapir Huberman about their personal and family connections to Israel and Palestine and their work facilitating dialogue. This episode was recorded September 7, 2025. Links: Mohamed Ibrahim: https://www.jmberlin.de/interview-tandemfuehrungen-ausstellung-jerusalem https://taz.de/Nahostkonflikt-und-Holocaust-an-Schulen/!5033577/ Sapir Huberman: https://il.linkedin.com/in/sapir-huberman-711b904 To contact both: [email protected] Disclaimer: Guest opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the podcast team. Technical legal terms are explained in Episode 36 with Prof. Claus Kreß; contested histories are addressed by Prof. Gudrun Krämer in Episode 21.