The Future Is Peace
A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land
Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli Maoz Inon forged a bond of brotherhood when the world expected them to be enemies. Both have lost family to the conflict. Both have known the bitterness of righteous anger. Yet, they choose a different path.
Selected as one of the Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2026
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How can we forget the courageous embrace between Maoz Inon,
an Israeli whose parents were killed by Hamas, and Aziz Abu
Sarah, a Palestinian whose brother was killed by the Israeli
army. That gesture remains as a testimony and sign of hope.
POPE LEO XIV
A book of hope in a time of despair. After unbearable personal suffering, Aziz and Maoz refuse to give up on a shared future in Israel Palestine. Here they show us how it can, and must, happen.
Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent.
We need this book to repair our damaged faith in the future.
Ece Temelkuran, award-winning novelist and political commentator.
A remarkable book, carefully constructed and heartbreakingly true. As a guide to the torn heart, it allows a vision of repair.
Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author
Hopeful and inspirational, The Future is Peace is a walk through the land and history of Israel and Palestine that shows how two peace activists-an Israeli and a Palestinian -respect each other’s narratives and dare to dream magically of peace amidst the reality of conflict.
Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem: The Biography
Aziz and Maoz are guides for how to retain our humanity, no matter how much pain we endure.
Peter Beinart, author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
If you’ve lost your faith in the future, read this beautiful book by two people who’ve found it.
BRIAN ENO
One cannot find hope. We must create it.
In The Future Is Peace, Aziz and Maoz take readers on a transformative weeklong journey across a sacred and bloodstained land. Facing competing narratives, they explore how compassion and unity can pull humanity back from the precipice of blind hatred. This book is a rebuttal to a broken world and a bold challenge to the belief that more violence can ever bring security. One cannot find hope. We must create it.
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