Peace Week on Teachers TV
Two Schools in Nablus This powerful film documents the daily struggles of two schools in the West Bank, providing a unique insight into the pressures of life in Palestine under Israeli occupation.
Exam Time This programme returns to the two Palestinian schools as the end-of-year exam season gets underway. Osaid Salami from King Talal boys' school spent many months in an Israeli jail to the great cost of his education and the exams are a challenge for him.
Beyond School While the lower classes anxiously await their exam results, some of the teachers and students of King Tala boys' school and Hajja Rushda girls' school get the chance to travel beyond the checkpoints that surround Nablus. In this programme we follow Shifa al-Khatib, a science teacher at the girl's school for whom travel has been impossible without identity papers and therefore hasn't seen her family in Jordan for ten years.
The Path to the Future 'Tawjihi', 'the path to the future', is the name of the school-leaving public exams that determine the futures of thousands of Palestinian students. We follow some of these final year students at King Talal boys' school and Hajja Rushda girls' school in this, the most important stage of their academic lives.
First Lesson in Peace First Lesson in Peace explores the Jewish Arab conflict through the eyes of a six-year-old girl, the director's daughter, as she starts school at the mixed Arab-Jewish primary school � Neveh Shalom � The Oasis of Peace.
Little Peace of Mine Nadav is a charismatic twelve-year-old with a heightened sense of social and political awareness � a natural born leader. After a long summer of terrorist bombings in Jerusalem, including one that he actually witnessed, he decides to do something about the situation and announces the formation of a new movement, 'Peace for the Future', consisting entirely of children.
The Temple Mount is Mine Holy to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is also the world's bloodiest and most fought-over site. While many empires and religions all clashed here in the past, it is still being contested to this very day.
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