This activity was held from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM on December 3rd, Beijing time.
We were here to hear their stories and talk to them in depth.
Numbness, pain, struggle. In the post-COVID-19 era, we have been overwhelmed by compassion and will eventually fall into a quagmire of chaos. Memories of small European towns in the sun are warm, fresh, and free, but now the corner of the warm sun has been confined to a corner of the window lattice. We are losing our connection to the world.
Finally here comes the warm sun. In this edition of the Starry Night dialogue, we are lucky to have invited two guests with special backgrounds studying abroad to share their warmth and embrace the carnival of the soul.
Jianyu
"ABU Dhabi is often pictured as a trance desert. Maybe not. It's incredibly inclusive and incredibly gorgeous."
Jianyu is studying at New York University in ABU Dhabi. People who spent time with him often said he was a soft touch. The tenderness of water is long under the sweltering desert. He called the school a bubble, where he met interesting people. The souls of different nationalities, sexual orientations, and cultural backgrounds drift and get close to each other.
Are cultural barriers hard to break down in the Middle East? Jianyu witnessed the annual spring fast around him, listened to the decadent music of the downtown mosque, and gazed at the black and white headscarves of varying lengths. Culture is not taboo, it is to embrace each other's warmth on the run.
Churan
"Sometimes you have to dream too big of yourself to get to certain places."
Churan studied at kings academy in Jordan. To avoid homogenization and explore more possibilities, she went out and deconstructed privilege, the responsibility to understand education, and personal responsibility. With different educational backgrounds and cultural atmospheres, she embraced culture shock, understood how to recognize her own prejudices/stereotypes, and learned to meet new people in a broader form.
With a keen interest in anthropology, she read humanity texts since childhood and had a profound thinking on gender issues in the Middle East environment. She also has her own views on the current issue of women's hijab freedom in Iran. Sections of journeys, run again and again, her footprints embrace and blend like warm sunshine.