Just World Ed is delighted that October 13-29 we will be hosting Palestinian rights activist Yousef Aljamal on a speaking tour that will take him to the Greater NYC area, …
US peace activists retrace steps to Vietnam, 50 years later
Last month, five longtime peace activists from the United States retraced steps to Vietnam that four of them first trod back during the US-Vietnam War. Led by “Ong” (grandfather) Frank …
Discussing Algeria, on a historic day for the country
Just World Educational is pleased to continue its focus on the remarkable events in Algeria by publishing this very recent exchange of letters between William Quandt, a political scientist who …
U.S.antiwar activists launch Vietnamese-language version of memoir… in Hanoi!
Editors and contributors of The People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement will formally launch the Vietnamese edition of their book in Hanoi this month. The Gioi …
Palestinian rights activist Yousef Aljamal touring US in October
Just World Educational is delighted to announce that for the last two weeks of October 2019 (specifically, Oct. 13-29) we will be hosting Palestinian rights activist Yousef Aljamal on a …
What does it mean to grow up as a Palestinian refugee in Gaza?
by Yousef M. Aljamal (This was written to mark World Refugee Day, observed June 20.) The year 1948 saw the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their towns and villages at …
The Right to Education: Gaza Students Denied Permit to Attend EU-sponsored Summer School in France
by Yousef Aljamal A couple of months ago two Gaza students, Mustapha Al-Buhaisi and Mustapha Aljamal– who happens to be my brother—both of whom are studying French and English (language …
Algeria: Some early thinking about a possible political solution
We are very happy to publish this paper, which was produced May 5 by a group of 15 professors at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations, University of …
Eid in Gaza: Fading happiness over the years
by Yousef Aljamal Every year, Muslims around the world and Palestinians under occupation and siege in Gaza (as elsewhere) celebrate Eid, the Muslim festival that comes soon after the end …
Our ‘Story/Backstory’ project produced great new discourse-expanding resources
One of Just World Ed’s major projects in Spring 2019 was the “Story/Backstory” project, in which– over a 13-week period– JWE President Helena Cobban produced weekly packages providing richly informed …