Denying Gaza’s students visas smacks of ‘collective punishment’
WHEN THE Israeli government some weeks ago denied permission to seven Fulbright scholars to leave Gaza to take up their scholarships...
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Posts with category Academic voices
“We are under siege”
Conal Urquhart reports from Bir Zeit University on the West Bank, where moves to discuss an academic boycott of Israel have been...
Palestinian Professor Sami Al-Arian speaks out from prison
Sami Al-Arian has been in prison for the past four years. The Palestinian professor and activist was found not guilty over a year ago...
American Politicians, Israeli Critics, and Palestinian Textbooks
In May 2005, Senator Hillary Clinton reiterated her denunciation of what she considers incitement and anti-Semitism in Palestinian...
Supporting Women in Education
Women's education is under serious threat in Palestine, says Dr Hala Attalah Scholarship Fund co-ordinator Bassma Khoury.The only way...
Life Under Occupation: Al Arian Trial Update
On July 23, a Palestine-based committee for the support of Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a former professor at the University of South Florida,...
A Day in Birzeit
Mazin Qumsiyeh writes on the trials of daily life in Palestine and the frustration caused by the injustice of the occupation.
Eyewitness to War Crimes
Anita Abdullah, Birzeit University, 3 December 2002
"All of a sudden, the soldier started sniping at them and within seconds we saw...
When the Curfew is Lifted
Tania Nasir, Birzeit University, 6 July 2002
After frustratingly waiting for days on end, I set off from my home in Birzeit heading...
A Journey to Jerusalem through Tora Bora Land
Islah Jad, Birzeit University, 4 July 2002
Yesterday July the 3rd, we had to make it to Jerusalem. It was an absolute must, as...
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