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In 2013, I spent a semester teaching literature at Al-Quds University in the West Bank. From the main gate of the university’s campus in Abu Dis, the first thing you see is the Wall. It was built in 2002 and it was originally set to cut the campus in half. If you stand on the road outside campus, Jerusalem appears as a thin line, with the golden Dome of the Rock at its centre, caught between the horizon above and the Wall below

Al-Quds is the only Palestinian university not recognised by Israel’s Council for Higher Education, because it maintains campuses in both Jerusalem and the West Bank. As a consequence, it can register neither as a “foreign” institution nor as an Israeli one. For a Jerusalem-based student, this means that his or her degree is not recognised in Israel so, for example, if you qualify as a doctor at Al-Quds but live in Jerusalem, your only option is to move abroad to use your degree

Fri Jun 19 2015 - 12:29

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