{"id":4675,"date":"2008-03-15T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:30:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:30:01","slug":"epalestine-blogspot-com-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2008\/03\/epalestine-blogspot-com-149\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Two Schools in Nablus&#8221;, an Al-Jazeera Witness Special documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Education is a RIGHT!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium wp-image-5393\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/two-schools-in-nablus-al-jazeera-documentary-300x147.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5393\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot from the first episode of the series.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I highly urge you all to watch this documentary about how Palestinians are struggling, NON-VIOLENTLY, to get a basic education and remain sane in this insane reality of Israeli occupation.&nbsp; Nablus is in the West Bank.&nbsp; Multiply what you see here by 100 and you can start to imagine the Gaza and Hebron reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sadly, my American subscribers would never have had the chance to see this when it was aired because the US' \"free\" media does not allow Al-Jazeera International to air in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consider showing this in a public venue (local library, city council, to your local newspaper editorial board, etc.) in your city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saluting teachers worldwide and free media,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From Al-Jazeera: \"Two Schools in Nablus\": a <em>Witness<\/em> Special<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/program\/witness\/2009\/1\/5\/two-schools-in-nablus-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a series of programmes, <em>Witness<\/em> looks at the struggle of getting an education under occupation<\/a>, following the fates of two schools in Nablus<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Filmmakers: Tom Evans and George Azar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teachers working for months without pay, a chronic overcrowding in the classrooms, and students at risk each day from imprisonment and perhaps worse \u2013 welcome to the typical education experience in a Palestinian school. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/program\/witness\/2008\/3\/31\/two-schools-in-nablus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some call them the lost generation: the children of the second intifada that began in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are growing up in the West Bank, where Israel has installed a network of checkpoints, barriers and walls, they claim, to protect Israelis from Palestinian suicide bombers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Palestinians the restrictions have destroyed their children\u2019s education, something they see as a way out, a key to a better future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We follow the two head teachers and their staff as they teach, inspire pupils and survive the challenges of life in Nablus; Osaid, as he writes the end-of-year exams he missed while in prison; the teachers as they anxiously await pay day and the tragic pandemonium that breaks out when Israeli soldiers launch a nearby raid to root out militants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Full Documentary (4 parts)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Two Schools in Nablus\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL49FB4944BE6986A3\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends, Education is a RIGHT!! I highly urge you all to watch this documentary about how Palestinians are struggling, NON-VIOLENTLY, to get a basic education and remain sane in this insane reality of Israeli occupation.\u00a0 Nablus is in the West Bank.\u00a0 Multiply what you see here by 100 and you can start to imagine the Gaza and Hebron reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[926],"tags":[991,934,55,555,932,933,931,1116],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentaries","tag-al-jazeera","tag-al-jazeeras-witness-program","tag-education","tag-freedom-of-movement","tag-george-azar","tag-nablus","tag-tom-evans","tag-two-schools-in-nablus-documentary"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.ps\/\">Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justvision.org\/\">Just Vision<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mas.ps\">The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour is the co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homeland-Oral-Histories-Palestine-Palestinians\/dp\/1566561329\/ref=la_B00HBW71SO_1_1\">Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/06\/epalestine-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash\/\">Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-tallest-man-in-ramallah\/\">The Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBahour\">@SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\">www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6452,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions\/6452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}