Ramallah
The fairest of them all? A reflection on the social history and contemporaneity of Ramallah.
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The Friends Girls School (1869) and the Friends Boys School (1903) changed the tapestry of Ramallah. Pioneers in the education of Palestinian women, they wove into the fabric of Ramallah an independence of thought, an appreciation of diversity, a sense of value in the individual. Graduates of the two schools became leaders in the Arab World: they became doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, authors, artists, cabinet ministers. They became bridges between the East and West, able to articulate the beauty and wisdom of the East in the vernacular of the West. In many ways they were the key that opened the West to Palestinians, but also gave the West a glimpse into Palestine and the East.
Ramallah - the fairest of them all?
Ethnographic and Art Museum at Birzeit University
© Photo: Iyad Jadallah
The fairest of them all? A reflection on the social history and contemporaneity of Ramallah.