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Event 16th May: Decolonising the Study of Palestine 71 Years after the Nakba
Friends of Birzeit University 40th Anniversary programme co-hosted with the University & College Union (UCU) EDUCATION, OCCUPATION & LIBERATION Decolonising the Study of Palestine 71 Years after the Nakba with Professor Abdel Razzaq Takriti,...
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Fobzu joins NGOs in condemning UK dereliction of responsibility at the UN Human Rights Council
Fobzu joined nine other UK charities and NGOs to condemn the UK government’s decision to abstain on a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council last month which backed the report of the UN Commission of Inquiry into the 2018 protests in Gaza. The charities...
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Dr Samah Jabr: Education can be a source of alienation or an instrument of freedom
Samah Jabr, leading Palestinian psychiatrist, writer, and Chair of the Palestinian Mental Health Unit, opened the first event of 2019 in the Education, Occupation & Liberation series with a lecture on the colonial predicament facing the Palestinian people. ...
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Event 11th April – Education under siege: The experience of universities in Gaza
The Friends of Birzeit University 40th Anniversary programme co-hosted with the University & College Union (UCU) EDUCATION, OCCUPATION & LIBERATION Education under siege: The experience of universities in Gaza with Dr Mona Jebril, Cambridge University Chair:...
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Fobzu works with UNRWA to launch new scholarships for Palestinian refugees
In our 40th anniversary year, Fobzu has established ten new scholarships for Palestinian students studying at universities in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Thanks to the generous help of our supporters, Fobzu has been working with UNRWA, the UN agency...
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A history of building solidarity with Palestine: Fobzu and the education trade unions
Former Fobzu trustee and UCU International Officer, Paul Bennett discusses his work with Fobzu since the First Intifada building solidarity with the education sector in Palestine I became involved in Fobzu in 1989, when Fobzu and the World University Service UK (WUS),...
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