PRESS RELEASE
Summer School Launch
July 2010
The Palestinian Youth Network is pleased to announce the launch of the summer school project, which will consist of fifty youth from 22 different countries from all over the world from July 11th- 28th in Spain. With academic cadres such as Hani Al Masri, Gilbert Achkar, Adel Samara, HazemJamjoum, Andre Zaaiman, Ignacio Gonzalez Martines, Naeem Jeenah and James Wiegel the focus of the work during the school will be in promoting and enriching the values of the national identity and humanitarian values of the Arab culture.
The School aims to find a common dialogue in order to preserve what remains of the Palestinian identity, which melted in the midst of the countries and cities of exile. A variety of lectures, seminars, workshops, readings and discussions seek to develop critical intellectual analysis on the Palestinian exile, and the national community and culture. The approach of work will aim to help youth on developing ways on how to combine theory and methodology to develop creative and new methods to preserve the cultural and justice dimensions of the national issue and cause which will help the participants in the summer school transfer their experience to their country of residence in order to spread the knowledge to the greatest number of individuals possible.
Readings from prominent scholars including Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, Frantz Fanon, Rabab Abdulhadi, Rosemary Sayag, Mureed Barghouti, Samih Farsoun, Naseer Aruri and many more. The program will aim to provide the following:
- Creative spaces and imaginative dialogues will materialize thus enabling us to develop new models of more efficient, effective and long-term sustainable advocacy and activism by examining the Palestinian history, politics, and the different experiences of the youth.
- Opening creative and safe spaces for the youth to examine the issues behind paralyzing our generation into inaction, demoralization.
- Allowing the youth to exchange resources, networks, experiences, thoughts, skills, initiatives and more to illuminate the diversities of our demographics.
- Creating spaces in which youth can strategically plan and develop new models of organizing, advocacy, and activism around human rights and justice for the longevity of the PYN and other human rights and social justice initiatives on local, national and international levels
This program is first of its kind where it contains sessions that are designed for the participants to analyze the current situation and work on strategic proposals for the next phase of the Palestinian Youth Network development.
For your inquiries please contact Saif AbuKeshek : 0034685900540
Until Return and Liberation,
Palestinian Youth Network
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