User:Lutof Zreik

Lutof Zreik
Lutof Zreik is an Arabian Christian from Haifa, Israel. he was born in 24/3/1990 in the Austrian hospital in Nazareth, Israel. His father known as Amer Zreik, and he is a gynecologist services at the Bie-Zeyon hospital in Haifa. Lutof learns physics and computer sciences at the AOC (Arab Orthodox Collage) in Haifa, he's at the 11th grade. His plans for the future aren't cleared yet, but he might travil after graduating school to the US or Canada to see new opportunities there, because he thinks that it's hard to become a very successful, as he dreams, in his country as an Arabian. His dreams are very wide; becoming an actor, a guitar player, an airplanes engineer, a plastic surgeon, and lately he worked on a paper about Cloning and he became also interested in it. But at the end he will have to choise one of this trails to go on with his life.

  TRIUMPH    While he was 16, he participated in the project TRIUMPH 2006(Today's Revolution is Understanding: Make Peace Happen). This project in about trying to enhance relationships between Arabs and Jews in he city of Haifa, to improve the co-existence. In this project he was participated with another 7 Arab students and 8 Jew students, and all of them as a delegation traveled to Simi Valley, California. This delegation was a successful pilot, as a result for this, this year (2007) all his group and anoher guides are working on TRIUPMH 2007, another delegation that will pass through the same process they did last year. Their goal of going to California was conveying the message of peace and co-existence in Haifa. Moreover, al whole group went through a huge process in California. They spent 2 weeks at the Bardin Brandeis Institute in Simi Valley. They had a very busy schedule, they had to wake up everyday at 5:30 am to a Yoga practice. After breakfasting they would make a lot of leadership managments, that acquired for the projects they would lead at Haifa atfer coming back. They also had a lot of activies, as hiking and clambing.. They visited the high schools of Simi Valley, Newbury Park, Moorpark and Thousand Oaks. At the high schools they argue with the students there about living in Israel and Haifa specially, about being an Arabian in a Jewish Country and about their lifestyle. They made many friends and contacts over there, and Lutof would love to visit there again. After two weeks of passing through a lot of difficulties, many sensitive moments and a lot of fun and experiences they never went through, they made very tight relationship. Lutof would have summarize these two weeks as one of his two best weeks in life, two weeks full of unforgettable moments and nostalgia.