Yasser: Arab James Bond?

So, here's the thing: When you look at Yasser, from Saudi Arabia, you do not expect James Bond. But that's what he is in some ways. At least when he starts talking about how he ended up getting married. How he fought with his father to let him marry the girl of his dreams. His stories of high speed car chases with his father and fighting for love...they don't match with the image of Saudi Arabia we hold in our minds.

And I guess it just reinforces one thing: that humans have an astounding tendency to defy labels. It's only once you share and accept people as they are that those masks of survival fall away, and you realize that under the difference of clothes, lies as fresh as ever, the human spirit. Under that skin, lies another human, with the same fears, same worries, same hopes. That's what the Mosaic Summer School accomplished for 83 delegates and many others from the Muslim world this year.

To defy labels a little further: Yasser, dressed in traditional garb of bisht and keffiyeh, happens to fly gaming champions around the world for a living.

More about the Mosaic International School: http://www.mosaicnetwork.co.uk/international/international_summer_school/