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Faces of Palestinian Education

Palestinian educators and scholars shape minds and foster curiosity, laying the foundation for a future rich in knowledge and cultural wisdom.

  • 29 educators
  • Born 1878–1983
  • 7 from Gaza
Birzeit UniversityBirzeit University
The new campus of An-Najah National University, NablusThe new campus of An-Najah National University, Nablus
On the An-Najah campus during PalFest 2010On the An-Najah campus during PalFest 2010
Photos: Oromiya321 (CC BY-SA 3.0), أمين (CC BY-SA 4.0), PalFest from Palestine (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

About Education

Learning as a way of staying.

Education has long been one of the things Palestinians hold most dear: the one thing exile could not take away. In 1909 Khalil al-Sakakini opened the Dusturiyya School in Jerusalem, a school built on new ideas about how children should be taught.

In 1924 Nabiha Nasir opened a girls’ school in Birzeit that grew into Birzeit University. After 1948, schools in the refugee camps taught generations of children, and in 1963 Walid Khalidi co-founded the Institute for Palestine Studies to keep Palestinian history on record.

The people in this path are teachers, professors, scholars and founders of schools. Refaat Alareer taught English literature in Gaza and urged his students to write their own stories, in their own words.

All 29 educators

Every face in Education, from the earliest pioneers to the voices of today.

Born across the decades

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  1. 1870s
  2. 1880s
  3. 1890s
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  7. 1930s
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  12. 1980s

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