Who is behind all of it
Blind Paralympic judoka. Athlete of the Year in Germany. Founder of PEACE ATHLETE.
2020
Paralympics, Tokyo
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Athlete of the Year, Germany
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My name means courage in Arabic. I am going blind, and judo is my access to life — everything I build grows out of that. I do not tell the story to be impressive. I tell it because the projects only make sense if you know where they came from.
People ask what connects judo to soil to Yemen to the road. The answer is one question, asked at different sizes: am I with existence, or against it? Judo was the first answer. Yemen is the second. The road and the soil are the next ones.
The peace centre is you. Before anything becomes visible, it has to be established in you.
One thing you can do today
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Partnerships, press, exhibitions and speaking — the door is open.
No account, no commitment. Just a first step — and you can change it later.
Yemeni soil is exhausted. Supporting the farmers there is what makes them independent — not charity, but the means to stand on their own.
The Yemen journey became 44 paintings and a film. Visibility is the mechanism — a bigger exhibition means more reach, and more reach means more support for the ground work.
Nine people are living out of a self-built trailer on the road. Solar, provisions and equipment are what turn a plan into a journey.
Figures are placeholders until the programme is costed. We will publish the real numbers before we ask for money again.
The projects
The project that started everything — and the one that most needs people behind it.
Read more →A peace movement on wheels, broadcasting one hour a day from wherever we stop.
Read more →You can eat food for a day. You cannot eat soil. Once it is gone, it is gone.
Read more →Help this move
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