Peace by Piece Tour: East Coast
Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) is excited to announce our Fall 2025 “Peace by Piece” Tour in collaboration with the Bethlehem Fair Trade Artisans (BFTA)! We invite you to host a meaningful event in your community centered around peacebuilding, economic justice, and advocacy related to Israel-Palestine. In collaboration with Bethlehem Free Trade Artisans, this program offers a unique opportunity to support Christian-led Palestinian craftspeople while fostering dialogue about paths toward peace and justice in the Holy Land. Our tour will visit select U.S. communities, featuring both a CMEP representative and a BFTA leader from Bethlehem who will share firsthand experiences about daily life, creative resilience, and hopes for peace. This initiative is particularly timely as communities in the region continue to recover from recent violence and conflict.
Tentative Dates & Cities
- November 2-3 Albany, NY
- November 4-6 New York, NY
- November 7-8 Delaware
- November 9 Washington, DC
Interested in hosting a Peace by Piece event? please contact destiny@cmep.org
Confirmed Peace by Piece Tour events will be listed here soon!
Speakers
Destiny Magnett is the Programs and Outreach Manager at Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) where she serves as the primary liaison for church partners, oversees CMEP’s online and in-person educational programming, and co-leads grassroots regional coordinator network. Grounded in deep commitments to justice, she draws from her own ecumenical Christian identity to help diverse American Christian communities deepen their understandings of the Middle East through storytelling, theological and scriptural investigation, and dialogue. Destiny holds an MTS and Religion & Public Life Certificate from Harvard Divinity School, where her work focused on decoloniality, religious ethics, peacebuilding, and religion in the public sphere. She also holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Grinnell College. Prior to joining CMEP, Destiny has lived and worked at the intersection of religion and peacebuilding in several contexts, including the Office of International Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State, Search for Common Ground– Jordan, Harvard’s Office of Religion and Public Life, and on the digital humanities project Mapping Islamophobia. While born and raised in Kansas, she is now based in the Boston area.
Suzan Sahori is a Palestinian Christian from Bethlehem, who serves as the executive director of the Bethlehem Fair Trade Artisans (BFTA). She helped establish the BFTA in 2009 to create export opportunities for the handicraft sector working with the most talented, yet very marginalized producers who benefit from being a part of a large network. She led the organization to becoming a member of the World Fair Trade Organization and to be the pioneer of fair trade principles in Palestine and Israel. Susan’s goal is to have the hand-made ethically produced products reach the whole world, and that the stories behind each product are shared.