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Sustaining Higher Education in Gaza

On Wednesday, October 23, 2024, the MESA Global Academy, in partnership with the Arab Studies Institute, BRISMES, NSMES, the Scholars at Risk Network, and the New University in Exile Consortium, hosted six scholars from Gaza who spoke about their efforts to sustain higher education in the face of genocide and scholasticide. Dr. Asli Bali of Yale Law School and MESA and Dr. Bassam Haddad of George Mason University and the Arab Studies Institute moderated the online discussion (in Arabic) with Drs. Ahmed Abu Shaban, Yousef Algherbawi, Osama Hamdouna, and Mohab Sawali of Al-Azhar University; Dr. Wesam Amer of Gaza University; and Dr. Mohammed Hamdona of the Islamic University of Gaza.

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