. >> reporter: cooking dinner together in this harlem apartment is not where colby or azeez thought theyars, they're pros at working side by side. >> no, no, no, keep that here. >> reporter: colby was born to an orthodox family in israel azeez to a palestinian family. all of that came to a sudden stop on october 7. >> i ran a travel company that ran a lot of trips to israel and palestine, and now we're running zero trips there >> reporter: tourism in the region has been slashed since the war between israel and hamas began, leaving colby and azeez now giving tours of a different kind, around difficult dialog here in the united states. cot young version of either of you ever imagine being here next to each other right now? >> not a chance. >> for me, i didn't have empath. i didn't even look at them >> i grew up with the narrative, which, you know, israel, every israeli and every jew in the world wants to displace all of us there's only us versus them. >> reporter: today they're taking that history to discussion events of all kinds and this night it's a dinner party. >> we said okay, you're