Teaching about Judaism and Jewish history on the Arabian Peninsula

What a fascinating experience this must have been!

http://forward.com/articles/214236/what-i-learned-teaching-arabs-about-judaism-in-abu/?p=all

I hope that things like this will happen more and more often.  I firmly believe that, for normal decent people, in the overwhelming majority of instances, barriers are broken down and hostility decreased by the simple act of getting to know one another and learning about one another.