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Right to Education

Podcast The Take: At Birzeit University, the fight for education under occupation

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The Right to Education campaign was honored to be part of this Episode of The Take podcast on Al-Jazeera English. it was released on 28th of August 2024.

In the occupied West Bank, more than 141 Palestinian university students were arrested between October 2023 and May 2024, often without clear charges.

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Palestinian university students in the occupied West Bank live under the constant threat of arrest by the Israeli military, often without trial or charges. At Birzeit University, a centre of Palestinian intellectual life, a staff member who documents those arrests explains the challenges that the best and brightest Palestinian students often face and the obstacles they create for their futures.

In this episode:

  • Sundos Hammad, coordinator of the Right to Education Campaign at Birzeit University

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Veronique Eshaya, Sarí el-Khalili and Sonia Bhagat, with Shraddha Joshi, Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh and our host Natasha del Toro, in for Malika Bilal. 

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.

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