Fobzu joined nine other UK charities and NGOs to condemn the UK government’s decision to abstain on a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council last month which backed the report of the UN Commission of Inquiry into the…
Samah Jabr, leading Palestinian psychiatrist, writer, and Chair of the Palestinian Mental Health Unit, opened the first event of 2019 in the Education, Occupation & Liberation series with a lecture on the colonial predicament facing the Palestinian people. The event…
The Friends of Birzeit University 40th Anniversary programme co-hosted with the University & College Union (UCU) EDUCATION, OCCUPATION & LIBERATION Education under siege: The experience of universities in Gaza with Dr Mona Jebril, Cambridge University Chair: Nita Sanghera, Vice President,…
In our 40th anniversary year, Fobzu has established ten new scholarships for Palestinian students studying at universities in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Thanks to the generous help of our supporters, Fobzu has been working with UNRWA, the…
Former Fobzu trustee and UCU International Officer, Paul Bennett discusses his work with Fobzu since the First Intifada building solidarity with the education sector in Palestine I became involved in Fobzu in 1989, when Fobzu and the World University Service UK…
The Friends of Birzeit University 40th Anniversary programme EDUCATION, OCCUPATION & LIBERATION Alienation and Freedom: Education in the Struggle for National Liberation with Dr Samah Jabr George Washington University, Chair of the Mental Health Unit, Palestine Ministry of Health —…
In a talk co-hosted by Fobzu and the Centre for Palestine Studies (SOAS), SOAS Palestine Society and others, H.E. Ambassador Cheikh Niang told an audience of SOAS students and staff on Thursday that citizens around the world have a vital…
The Friends of Birzeit University 40th Anniversary programme EDUCATION, OCCUPATION & LIBERATION The Psychosocial Health of Palestinian Youth: Occupation & Resistance with Professor Rita Giacaman, Birzeit University Chair: Professor Ann Phoenix, UCL 6.30pm, 21st November 2018 Room W3.01, Institute of…
On 17th October Fobzu held the third event in the Education, Occupation & Liberation programme on the topic of ‘Palestinian universities under occupation and academic freedom’. The panel discussion held at the Institute of Education drew a large audience of…
On Monday 15th October, Fobzu and representatives of the major education unions – including UCU, NEU, NASUWT, EIS and UNISON – wrote to Minister of State for the Middle East, The Rt Hon Alistair Burt MP to call on the…
Fobzu and UCU present Friends of Birzeit University 40th Anniversary programme EDUCATION, OCCUPATION & LIBERATION Palestinian Universities Under Occupation & Academic Freedom with Professor Roger Heacock, Birzeit University Dr Mezna Qato, King’s College, Cambridge Dr Adam Hanieh, SOAS When: 6.30pm, Wednesday…
In an historic move, Labour Party and trade union delegates representing millions of party members and affiliated trade unionists carried a motion at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool that drew attention to the most recent escalation of attacks on…
