Dar Al Tifel Al Arabi, founded in 1948 by Hind al-Husseini, embodies resilience and dedication to preserving Jerusalem’s Arab and Jerusalemite identity.
East Jerusalem schools are adamant that their curriculum must help Jerusalem children understand their lived realities.
This women-initiated community project evolved into a facility that nurtures children from nursery school through grade 8.
An educator and social worker who founded a school for destitute girls and was fondly recalled as the “patron of us poor people”
Post-traumatic stress disorder is hard to diagnose among Palestinians, because the trauma is chronic.
Release from prison is not, it seems, the end of the punishment Israel wishes to inflict on Palestinian Jerusalemite youths.
The author recalls her happy years attending Schmidt’s School, before the Nakba, her brief visit years later, and what it meant to her.
With Israeli restrictions and harassment in the Old City, Islamic schools within the Haram al-Sharif compound are considering online learning to protect Palestinian students and staff.
A peek into a 1980s UNRWA school for girls in Shu‘fat refugee camp