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Ramallah Friends School
The Ramallah Friends School () is a private school in West Bank, Palestine with campuses in the twin cities of Ramallah and al-Bireh. The Friends Girls' School was inaugurated in 1869; the construction of the Friends Boys' School began in 1901 and the school opened in 1918.Michael Dumper, Bruce E. Stanley and Janet L. Abu-Lughod (2007) ''Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: A Historical Encyclopedia'' ABC-CLIO, p 310 The Schools were run by American Quakers.Sa’ed Atshan, Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (New Texts Out Now) " ''Jadaliyya.'' 22 December 2021. Both campuses are now co-educational and divided into Senior and Junior sections; a Meeting House was built in 1910. The Swift Building, located in the upper School and named after Sara Swift of New England, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private School
A private school or independent school is a school not administered or funded by the government, unlike a State school, public school. Private schools are schools that are not dependent upon national or local government to finance their financial endowment. Unless privately owned they typically have a board of governors and have a system of governance that ensures their independent operation. Private schools retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students for Tuition payments, tuition, rather than relying on taxation through public (government) funding; at some private schools students may be eligible for a scholarship, lowering this tuition fee, dependent on a student's talents or abilities (e.g., sports scholarship, art scholarship, academic scholarship), need for financial aid, or Scholarship Tax Credit, tax credit scholarships that might be available. Roughly one in 10 U.S. families have chosen to enroll their childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine was a British Empire, British geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the Palestine (region), region of Palestine, and after 1922, under the terms of the League of Nations's Mandate for Palestine. After an Arab Revolt, Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War in 1916, British Empire, British Egyptian Expeditionary Force, forces drove Ottoman Empire, Ottoman forces out of the Levant. The United Kingdom had agreed in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence that it would honour Arab independence in case of a revolt but, in the end, the United Kingdom and French Third Republic, France divided what had been Ottoman Syria under the Sykes–Picot Agreement—an act of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs. Another issue was the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which Britain promised its support for the establishment of a Homeland for the Jewish people, Jewish "national home" in Palestine. Mandatory Palestine was then establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaney Jamal
Amaney A. Jamal (born December 30, 1970) is a Palestinian-American scholar of Middle Eastern politics who is currently the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics and Director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University. Jamal earned her bachelor's degree in politics at UCLA in 1993, followed by her PhD in political science from the University of Michigan. A Carnegie Scholar, Jamal specializes in democratization and civic engagement in the Arab world as well as Muslim and Arab civic engagement in the US. She currently directs the Workshop on Arab Political Development at Princeton University, is the principal investigator of the "Arab Barometer Project", which was awarded the Best Data set in the field of Comparative Politics in 2010, and is senior advisor on the PEW Research Center Projects focusing on Islam in America and Global Islam. Jamal has been interviewed on numerous programs throughout her career including MSNBC, Al Jazeera, and the ''Was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaweed Al-Ghussein
Jaweed al-Ghussein (; 18 July 1930 – 1 July 2008) was a Palestinian educationist and philanthropist. Early years Born in Gaza in 1930, into one of the most prominent Palestinian noble families. A refugee in 1948 he went to Cairo Egypt with his family where he attended the American University in Cairo (AUC). Graduating in Economics he was elected President of the Students Union. A Contemporary of Yasser Arafat, they presented a petition signed in their blood to the first President of Egypt Muhammad Naguib demanding the ''rights of Palestinian students''. Education * Friends School, Ramallah *American University in Cairo Work Al-Ghussein began his career in the Kuwait civil service in the 1950s before commencing his business career which began when he represented Parsons. In the early 1960s he was invited to the Trucial State of Abu Dhabi by the late ruler Sheik Zayed Al-Nahyan to search for water. Al Ghussein went on to establish one of the leading Construction and eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palestinian Legislative Council
The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of the Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian Authority, elected by the Palestinians, Palestinian residents of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It currently comprises List of members of the 2nd Palestinian Legislative Council, 132 members, elected from 16 electoral districts of the Palestinian Authority. The PLC has a quorum requirement of two-thirds, and since 2006 Hamas and Hamas-affiliated members have held 74 of the 132 seats in the PLC. The PLC's activities were suspended in 2007 and remained so while PLC committees continue working at a low rate and parliamentary panel discussions are still occurring. The first PLC met for the first time on 7 March 1996. Under the Oslo II Accord, the powers and responsibilities of the PLC are restricted to civil matters and internal security in West Bank Areas in the Oslo II Accord#Areas A and B, Area A of the West Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Daoud Mikhael Ashrawi (; born 8 October 1946) is a Palestinian politician, activist, and scholar. Ashrawi began her career at Birzeit University. Beginning in the 1990s, Ashrawi was a member of the PLO's Leadership Committee, serving as the official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation during the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991. In 1996, Ashrawi was appointed as the Palestinian Authority Minister of Higher Education and Research. Ashrawi was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council representing Jerusalem in 1996 and was re-elected in 2006. She was elected as member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 2009 and 2018, becoming the body's first female member. She resigned in 2020. As a civil society activist, she founded the Independent Commission for Human Rights in 1994 and served as its Commissioner-General until 1995. In 1998, she also founded MIFTAH, the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issam Abdulhadi
Issam Abdulhadi (1928–16 August 2013) was an award-winning Palestinian women’s rights activist. She was elected as the President of the General Union of Palestinian Women in July 1965. Early life Born in Nablus in 1928, she was educated at A’ishiyyeh School and later at the Friends’ School in Ramallah. Career Abdulhadi began her career in Palestinian women’s activities in the West Bank in 1949. She attended the first Palestinian National Council at which the General Union of Palestinian Women was formally established in June 1964. In 1949 she was elected Secretary-General of the Arab Women’s Union in Nablus. By July 1965 she was elected as the President of the General Union of Palestinian Women. Imprisonment In April 1969 Abdulhadi was imprisoned by Israeli forces and then deported with her daughter, Faiha Abdul Hadi, after arranging a sit-in and hunger strike at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, in Jerusalem, where she had been protesting the Israeli army’s k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Peacemaker Teams
Community Peacemaker Teams or CPT (previously called Christian Peacemaker Teams) is an international organization set up to support teams of peace workers in conflict areas around the world. The organization uses these teams to achieve its aims of lower levels of violence, nonviolent direct action, human rights documentation and nonviolence training in direct action. CPT sums up their work as being "committed to reducing violence by 'getting in the way'". The organization currently has a full-time peace force of over 30 activists working in Colombia, Iraq, the West Bank, Chiapas, Mexico and Kenora, Canada. These activists are supported by over 150 reservists who spend two weeks to two months a year on location for the organization and its activities. Christianity and CPT CPT has its roots in the historic peace churches of North America, and its four supporting denominations are the Mennonite Church Canada, Church of the Brethren, and the Religious Society of Friends. It is al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) () is a group opposed to Israeli settlements, which describes itself as "an Israeli peace and human rights organization dedicated to ending the occupation of the Palestinian territories and achieving a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians." ICAHD says it uses non-violent, direct-action means of resistance to end Israel's policy of house demolition in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, demolishing Palestinian homes in the Israeli-occupied territories, occupied territories." ICAHD was founded by eight activists (see box), among whom was Jeff Halper, a long-time human rights advocate and professor of anthropology, who serves as ICAHD's Director. Halper describes ICAHD as "a critical, 'radical' organization which can envision a Isratin, single democratic state in Palestine/Israel." Activities ICAHD's activities, which are based on nonviolent direct action, include exhibits, films, workshops, tours of the Israeli-oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Intifada
The First Intifada (), also known as the First Palestinian Intifada, was a sustained series of Nonviolent resistance, non-violent protests, acts of civil disobedience, Riot, riots, and Terrorism, terrorist attacks carried out by Palestinians and Palestinian political violence, Palestinian militant groups in the Israeli-occupied territories, Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and Israel. It was motivated by collective Palestinian frustration over Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as it approached a twenty-year mark, having begun in the wake of the Six-Day War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War.#LockmanBeinin1989, Lockman; Beinin (1989), p.&nbs5./ref> The uprising lasted from December 1987 until the Madrid Conference of 1991, though some date its conclusion to 1993, the year the Oslo Accords were signed. The Intifada began on 9 December 1987 in the Jabalia refugee camp after an Israeli truck driver collided with parked civilian vehicles, killing four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tawjihi
Tawjihi or Al-Tawjeehi (امتحان شهادة الدراسة الثانوية العامة) is the General Secondary Education Certificate Examination in Jordan and Palestine. It is the last stage of school education. To sit for the exam, students are required to finish 2 years of pre-school education, 10 years of basic education, and 2 years of secondary academic or vocational education (Tawjihi year). Subjects in the exam include Arabic, English, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology, Civil Studies and Islamic studies (unless Christian). Admission into universities is determined on the mean score achieved in the examination. For example, to be admitted to study medicine a student must typically obtain a result of 85% or higher, having chosen to undergo teaching in the scientific stream at the beginning of Tawjihi year. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AMIDEAST
Amideast (the America-Mideast Educational and Training Services) is a United States, U.S. non-profit organization that works to strengthen mutual understanding and cooperation between United States, Americans and the peoples of the MENA, Middle East and North Africa, and to offer opportunities for learning and training. Established in 1951 and based in Washington, DC, the organization since 2023 has been headed by CEO Ambassador (ret) Greta C. Holtz. By 2016, Amideast had provided English language and professional training to 58,000 students, gave lectures on education in USA to 87,000 attendants, administered 200,000 tests, and offered scholarships to 1,700 applicants. As of 2018, Amideast had provided its services to 500,000 people. Programs Amideast provides English language and professional skills training, educational advising, and testing services to hundreds of thousands of students and professionals in the Middle East and North Africa; supports numerous institutional deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
