Thursday, December 21, 11:00 AM EDT
The War on Palestinian Education
Join the Galilee Foundation and Friends of Birzeit University in conversation with our speakers on the war on education in Palestine.
The Galilee Foundation is a UK registered charity that empowers underprivileged Palestinian youth in Palestine/Israel by giving them the tools & skills needed to become change-makers. They do this through their Scholarship Programme which provides educational, cultural & capacity development. They also partner with grassroots civil society organisations that work in education & culture to increase their impact & sustainability in order to empower Palestinian youth.
Friends of Birzeit University (Fobzu) is a UK registered charity founded in 1978, championing the right to education for Palestinians under occupation and in exile. Through scholarships, fellowships, and advocacy, they work to promote Palestinian access to education and its role in the creation of a free and flourishing Palestine.
The War on Palestinian Education is a webinar event to discuss how the war in Gaza has also been an attack on Palestinian education. The webinar will be chaired by Professor Arathi Sriprakash, who is Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Oxford and author of "Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State". Her research explores reparations and reparative justice in education.
SPEAKERS: Adi Mansour holds an LLB in Law and BA in political science from Tel Aviv University, is a founding member and activist of the Haifa Youth Movement, and he served as the head of “Almuntada” – the Arab Law Students Forum, Tel Aviv University. / Sundos Hammad is the coordinator of the Right to Education Campaign at Birzeit University, and human rights activist, holds a Masters Degree in International studies and is interested in Social justice and Academic freedom. / Saleem Lubbad is a full-time physicist and a doctorate candidate at the University of Oxford, working on the development of Nuclear Fusion Energy. He has worked on several academic initiatives with Palestinian universities, such as the OxPal Medical Link and the Oxford Jesus College Gaza Scholarship. / Dr Samia Al-Botmeh is an assistant professor in economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics/ Birzeit University. She was formerly the director for the Centre for Development Studies at Birzeit University. Her research has explored alternatives to neo-liberal development in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and gender differentials in labour market outcomes.
For more information about the speakers and to register: The War on Palestinian Education Tickets, Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 4:00 PM | Eventbrite