Academic freedom and Israel’s Siege of Gaza
About two weeks ago, the World Health Organization co-sponsored a conference in Gaza, entitled "Seige and Mental Health"....
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Posts tagged with Siege
Closure of Gaza costs girl her dream to study medicine
An outstanding Palestinian student has lost her best chance of realising a burning ambition to study medicine in Britain because she...
The Only Way Out: A student’s struggle to study abroad
Over the past year, Muhannad Omar al-Helo has twice petitioned the Israeli government to leave Gaza in order to study in Europe for a...
Guess which university students won’t be able to reach their classes today?
Release, GISHA, 2 November 2008
Today, as tens of thousands of Israeli university students report for the first day of the academic...
No ‘right to education’ for Palestinians
Sarah Clark, The Journal, UK , 26 October 2008
The right to education is universal, and in the west, universally taken for granted; in...
Israel targets Palestinian students
Mohammed Omer, IPS, 21 October 2008
There are still hundreds of students with places at universities abroad trapped in Gaza due to the...
$50 million lost to Gaza universities due to Israeli siege
Gaza, PNN, 12 October 2008
Lawmaker Jamal Al Khudari announced on Sunday that the Israeli siege has cost Gaza universities 50 million...
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In early October Zuheir Abu Shaban's Fulbright scholarship was revoked and he lost the opportunity to...
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...
A blockade of young minds
Abdalaziz Okasha , Comment is Free, The Guardian, UK , 11 September 2008
Abdalaziz Okasha is another one of the hundreds of students...
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