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Studying Arabic in Palestine

Studying Arabic in Palestine

Our year abroad in the Occupied West Bank changed our lives forever.

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Nov 02, 2023
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“Rolling blue hills and green serene skies.” 

This is how I described Palestine in a notebook entry on one of our long journeys through its striking landscape.

We went to Palestine in September 2016 along with a cohort of SOAS students to study Arabic at an-Najah University in Nablus, the occupied West Bank.

Many of the stories I tell my students in our co…

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