The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has kindly featured the recent Academics For Palestine and Irish School of Ecumenics public meeting on ‘Academic Voices From Palestine: Education Under Occupation’ as part of their ‘Palestine Podcast’ series.

If you were unable to make it along to the meeting, you can now listen to the recording of the discussion by clicking here.

This talk – held on Wednesday 14th October 2015 in the JM Synge Theatre in Trinity College Dublin – introduced the voices and experiences of Palestinian academics from Gaza.

It was introduced by Dr Iain Atack of the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin and chaired by Dr. Ronit Lentin, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Sociology in TCD.

The speakers were:

Dr. Yaser Al Ashqar, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin
Suha Shaheen, Lecturer in IT, Al Quds Open University, Gaza
Dr Ayman Shaheen, Political Science Al Azhar University, Gaza
and Malaka Mohammed, BA Islamic University Gaza, MSc Hons, Sheffield University, Member of the Executive of the National Union of Students, UK who joined via Skype.