One word to the Middle East

Hospitality. This is the word I can use to describe the Middle East in one word.
If there is one thing that unites the peoples from this part of the world, it is their natural gift of being hospitable and welcoming to guests. True that it might take a different timing from people to people to open themselves and feel confidence on the strange guest till they invite you to come in their lives.

Throughout all these travels I've been having the great opportunity to meet the most amazing people most of the times very unexpectedly and magically. From Istanbul to Jerusalem people have just been amazing in offering their homes, introducing me to their friends and people who they think could offer to my learning journey.

Arabs, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Kurds, Israelis, Syrians, Jordans, Turks, all have proved to be natural hosts and welcoming people once I have opened myself to be with them without preconceived judgments or ideas, coming in from a place of true learning and will to understand.

And this has proven to be the most necessary thing to cultivate at this time. It has proven to be one of my great learning this trip. Something into which I am willing to be more and more skillful as I get to understand deeper and deeper how we are always on a continuous journey of learning and absorbing.