{"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&#8217; &#8220;free&#8221; 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: &#8220;Two Schools in Nablus&#8221;: 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":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":2,"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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_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}]}}