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Ghada Ageel
Ghada Ageel is a third generation of Palestinian refugees. She was born and raised in Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. In 1948 Ghada’s family was expelled from their homes and their lands in the village of Beit Daras in what was then known as mandatory Palestine and is now part of Israel.
Because of borders closure, Ghada currently lives with her family in Oxford and works as a consultant for the Hoping foundation in London. She is responsible for the development of educational and other grants for Palestinian refugee youth throughout the Middle East.
She graduated High School in 1988, during the first Intifada. She did not have the chance to pursue her studies further for Israel had forced all the Palestinian universities to shut down during the uprising. In 1994 she enrolled at the Islamic University in Gaza where she earned her BA in Education. In 1999, she received a scholarship from the University of Exeter to pursue a Masters Degree in Politics. In 2002, she won another scholarship from the same university to do a doctorate 0research in refugees studies. She got her PhD degree in January 2008
Ghada worked in several Palestinian and international institutions as a teacher, translator, researcher, advisor and freelance journalist. She also coordinated several infromal fact finding missions to Occupied Palestine.A
A few weeks ago Ghada also spoke to U.S. audiences on WPFW Radio with Partners for Peace’s Executive Director Melinda Thompson about the current situation in Palestine and Israel and how Americans can respond.
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Since our founding in 1989, Partners for Peace has sought to educate the American public about key issues in the effort to secure peace and justice among Palestinians and Israelis.
Our major projects include the Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women, Three Faiths, One shared Vision speaking tours; highlighting the nonviolent efforts of Palestinians, Israelis, and citizens of other nations to end the occupation of Palestinian territories; and in-depth advocacy with the media.
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Partners for Peace grew out of a working committee of some 20 professionals here in Washington DC who began meeting in 1988 as a result of their concern about ongoing and deepening violence in Israel and the occupied territories.
In the fall of 1991, the working committee merged with The American Alliance for Palestinian Human Rights, a 501(c)(3) organization and a UN-registered NGO, changing the name of the organization to Partners for Peace.
For several years we researched cases of human rights abuse by Israel against American citizens of Arab origin. These young men were detained without charges, and interrogated, tortured, and imprisoned without due process of law. U.S. government spokespeople said they were able to do very little to protect their rights. We pursued a media campaign to inform the American public about this egregious violation of human rights. More recently, we have worked on cases of nonviolent Americans beaten, detained, or killed by Israeli security forces for their nonviolent efforts.
We bring forward to American audiences and the media the voices of Palestinians and Israelis seeking a just peace.
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