Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Q) held series of lectures and talks as part of the entirely student led Justice in Palestine Week, from November 18-22 at SFS-Q.
The week-long student event was designed to give SFS-Q students the opportunity to learn crucial facts, hear informed opinions and have an open environment to foster discussion on the heavy debated Palestine issue.
The initiative was initially born out of SFS-Q student, Malik Habayeb’s previous internship in Palestinian refugee camps on the West Bank, and his desire to ensure that this experience lived on after his time there had come to an end.
Habayeb, SFS-Q commented, “It all started once I returned from my two month internship spent in three Palestinian refugee camps, based in Ramallah, Bethlehem and Nablus. I was inspired and touched by my time, and being a student of International Politics didn’t want it to simply end when I returned home. I really wanted to make full use of many and varied resources available at SFS-Q, to turn my experience into something sustainable and hopefully impacting.”
Habayeb went onto say that he intends to set up a fully-fledged Palestinian Society at SFS-Q in order to create a continued and well informed dialogue on Palestine.
The Peninsula
