the Path of Return
The Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
is pleased to announce the publication of issue the Autumn 2009 issue of
al-Majdal (issue #42), titled Nakba Education on the Path of Return. The
issue looks at Nakba education: education in its various forms on the
history, culture, geography and society of Palestine over the past sixty
one years.
The authors in this issue of al-Majdal, are directly involved in the
process of Nakba Education in various places, directing their work at
different communities, and cover various aspects of the topic. Rami
Salameh looks at education in Palestinian elementary and high-school
classrooms and the need to develop the pedagogical methods in
Palestinian Authority schools. Said Barghouti examines the way Israeli
history textbooks over the past forty years have presented the history
of the land to Palestinian students. Dan Walsh examines the way the
“Middle East Conflict” is taught to U.S. high school students,
suggesting that Palestinian poster art can be used to present this topic
in a more accurate and student-empowering way. Also in the U.S., members
of the Palestine Education Project describe their work with students in
Brooklyn to learn about the experience of Palestinians and draw
connections with their own lived experiences. Nidal al-Azza shares his
reflections on teaching Palestinian refugee rights under international
law to Palestinian law students. Also looking at education in the
classroom, Amaya Galili describes How do we say Nakba in Hebrew? a
recently launched resource packet developed by Zochrot in Hebrew for
teachers wishing to engage Jewish-Israeli students about the Nakba.
Other authors focus on Nakba education outside of the classroom. Khaled
al-Azraq, a political prisoner for the past twenty years, tells us how
the Palestinian prisoners' movement has educated its cadre. Mo'ataz
al-Dajani looks at the efforts of al-Jana Center in Lebanon to engage
Palestinian children and youth in the writing of their own history by
engaging with older generations and with their surroundings, while Rich
Wiles describes the educational activities of refugee community centers
in the Bethlehem district.
While the articles in this issue provide a small sample of the forms
that Nakba education can take, the experiences and work described by
these authors offer a useful guide for others engaging in this field.
Sharing and learning from the experiences of others is one of the ways
educators can learn, and this issue of al-Majdal aims to be a
contribution to this shared learning process.
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