BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:557@ukfiet.org DTSTART:20231221T160000Z DTEND:20231221T160000Z DTSTAMP:20231218T091805Z URL:https://www.ukfiet.org/events/the-war-on-palestinian-education/ SUMMARY:The War on Palestinian Education DESCRIPTION:21 December 2023\, 4pm GMT\nJoin the Galilee Foundation and Fri ends of Birzeit University in conversation with our speakers on the war on education in Palestine.\nREGISTER HERE FOR THE ONLINE WEBINAR\nThe Galile e Foundation is a UK registered charity that empowers underprivileged Pale stinian youth in Palestine/Israel by giving them the tools &\; skills n eeded to become change-makers. They do this through their Scholarship Prog ramme which provides educational\, cultural &\; capacity development. T hey also partner with grassroots civil society organisations that work in education &\; culture to increase their impact &\; sustainability in order to empower Palestinian youth.\nFriends of Birzeit University (Fobzu ) is a UK registered charity founded in 1978\, championing the right to ed ucation for Palestinians under occupation and in exile. Through scholarshi ps\, fellowships\, and advocacy\, they work to promote Palestinian access to education and its role in the creation of a free and flourishing Palest ine.\nThe War on Palestinian Education is a webinar event to discuss how t he war in Gaza has also been an attack on Palestinian education. The webin ar will be chaired by Professor Arathi Sriprakash\, who is Professor of So ciology and Education at the University of Oxford and author of "Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State". Her research explore s reparations and reparative justice in education.\nSPEAKERS:\nAdi Mansour : Adi holds an LLB in Law and BA in political science from Tel Aviv Univer sity. During his studies\, he served as a teaching and research assistant. He is also a founding member and activist of the Haifa Youth Movement\, a nd he served as the head of “Almuntada” – the Arab Law Students Foru m\, Tel Aviv University. Upon completing his studies\, Adi clerked in the national public defender's office in the field of criminal and administrat ive law. Adi joined Adalah as a staff attorney in 2021\, where he works in the Civil and Political Rights Unit.\nSundos Hammad: Sundos is the coordi nator of the Right to Education Campaign at Birzeit University\, and human rights activist\, holds a Master Degree in International studies and inte rested in Social justice and Academic freedom.\nSaleem Lubbad: Saleem 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 s everal academic initiatives with Palestinian universities\, such as the Ox Pal Medical Link and the Oxford Jesus College Gaza Scholarship. Saleem is an Arabic language poet\, writer\, voice-over artist\, and TV presenter. H is interests span Arabic literature\, modern science and technology\, the history of science\, and Islamic art. He has worked on various museum cura tion and media production projects\, produced and presented a science show for Al-Araby TV\, and often pens columns for several newspapers in the Mi ddle East.\nDr Samia Al-Botmeh: Samia is a lecturer at the economic depart ment at Birzeit University and is an activist within the BDS movement.\n&n bsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ukfiet.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/1 2/War-on-Palestinian-education-21-12-23.jpg CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR