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Absent: Gaza’s best and brightest banned from universities abroad

Gaza, Ma'an News, 8 October 2008 In early October Zuheir Abu Shaban's Fulbright scholarship was revoked and he lost the opportunity to...
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At-Tuwani Reflection: Swings and Roundabouts

Jan Benvie, Christian Peacemaker Teams, 8 October 2008 This summer the at-Tuwani villagers organized a summer camp for local children....
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Trapped in Gaza, a frustrated student fears for his future

Rory McCarthy, The Guardian, UK , 27 September 2008 Zohair Abu Shaban, a resident of Gaza, dreams of becoming a professor of...
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Bethlehem students arrested for political activity

Muthafar Jawareesh, a Bethlehem University student, is one of hundreds of Palestinian students arrested because they are politically...
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“I used to dream about my future” – Israeli forces tear-gas school children in Ni’lin

On Tuesday September 9th, the pupils of the boys school in the West Bank village of Ni'lin started a protest against the building of...
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Education, occupation, incarceration

The story of Omar Qassis, a Palestinian student from Birzeit University, detained without trial, is far from unusual. Over 80 other...
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Deadline looms for another student trapped inside Gaza

Narratives Under Siege, PCHR, 8 September 2008 Nevin Abu Taima is still desperately trying to return to the US in order to resume her...
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Jim Crow alive and well in Hebron

Joel Gulledge, CPT volunteer, Electronic Intifada , 3 September 2008 Joel Gulledge was accompanying school children on their daily...
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Israeli troops arrest six university students in Nablus

An Israeli military force kidnapped six Palestinian civilians from the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday at dawn, local sources...
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The Story of Gaza graduates from Bethlehem University

KANDLE team, KANDLE Website, 8 August 2008 This podcast features the story of ten Occupational Therapy students in Gaza and of the...
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