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The Law School’s Dr Tor Krever was recently selected for a Fellowship of the inaugural Palestine Academic Links Seminar (PALS) organised by the Friends of Birzeit University (). The Fellowship involved a week-long study tour in Palestine in late June with a delegation of 11 academics from British Universities, led by academic coordinator Akram Salhab. The PALS programme was launched in 2022 to address the urgent need to build educational links and promote mutual understanding between UK and Palestinian faculty and is guided by the British Academy’s framework.

The Fellowship enabled scholars in law, education, politics, literary studies, Arab studies and documentary filmmaking to meet with Palestinian academics, students and civil society organisations to foster academic links and collaboration. For example, the delegation learned from the at Birzeit University, which documents, researches and raises awareness about the restrictions faced by Palestinian universities and the oppression of Palestinian students and teachers under Israeli military occupation.

In addition to Birzeit University, delegates also visited ; ; and , and met with representatives and academics from Al Quds and Bethlehem Universities and the human rights organisation .

The PALS Fellows will continue to work together to forge institutional links with academics and students in Palestine, to support FOBZU's commitment to the right to education and to the role of education in the creation of a free and flourishing Palestine.

Image: FOBZU delegates at the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit.