FYI. More inspiring news on partnerships and education. Please forward to
interested students and faculty. Amineh

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University partnership

A history-making U.S.-Palestinian educational partnership was announced by
Presidents Leon Botstein of Bard College (New York State) and Sari Nusseibeh of
Al-Quds University (East Jerusalem).

"The Honors College combines the best of educational traditions of
Palestine with contemporary approaches to American liberal arts education,"
announces their new Web site.
Al-Quds Bard Partnership
http://www.alqudsbard.org/

Bard College has deep interest in international collaborative programs
that incorporate its innovative approaches to liberal arts education and the
conduct of secondary-level schooling.

Al-Quds University desires to play a central role in improving Palestinian
education and offer students a high-level liberal arts undergraduate
experience.

The two institutions have formed task teams, and lively dialogue and
discussion is occurring both within each institution and between the two.

Frequent meetings are conducted via video-conference, as well as
face-to-face gatherings on both sides of the ocean.

This 2008-2009 academic year is dedicated to program design and
development, faculty recruitment, and student recruitment.

The Honors College and MAT Program will open in this Fall 2009, and the
Model School a year later in 2010.

Interested students may apply for admission to the Honors College through
Al-Quds University Admissions office - Tel: +972-2-2799753 or Fax:
+972-2-2796960.


Faculty members wishing to teach in the Honors College or Master of Arts
in Teaching (MAT) program submit a cover letter, resume, salary expectations
and names of three references by e-mail only to alquds-bardrecruitment@...
or hr@... .


SEE PHOTOS and more at:
Palestinian Campus Looks to East Bank (of Hudson)
The New York Times - Saturday, 14 February 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/world/middleeast/15quds.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

Bard College and Al-Quds University to Open Joint Campus
The Chronicle of Higher Education - 08 February 2009
http://chronicle.com/news/article/5941/bard-college-and-al-quds-university-to-op\
en-joint-college


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Environmental partnership

Green Mideast Peace is a partnership of young people of different faiths
and cultural backgrounds.
They cross boundaries toward one another, to work together on
environmental projects like keeping water supplies pure.
This benefits the whole Holy Land community, and fosters understanding
between these Palestinian and Jewish youth and their counselors.
SEE VIDEO at:
Green Mideast Peace
Goodwater Neighbors Project
On Falafel TV
http://falafel.tv/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&Itemid=26&id=\
27
or Current.com
http://current.com/items/89688761/green_mideast_peace.htm


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Create a new partner in time of crisis

When you feel threatened, don't call your friend.
Phone your enemy.
This is wisdom of Eboo Patel, an American Muslim with roots in India.
Patel is founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core -
http://ifyc.org/ - a Chicago-based international non-profit organization that
promotes interfaith cooperation.

"The first phone calls Jewish and Muslim officials should make when bombs
explode over there are not to organizations within their own religious
community, but to reasonable people in the other community," writes Patel.
"The first line should be, 'I'm on the side of coexistence, and I bet you
are too. What public statements can we collectively make, what press releases
can we cooperatively issue, which helps the side of coexistence defeat the
demon of conflict?'"
In sports language, Eboo believes, "That's a play that could change the
game."
US Jews, Muslims need new playbook
by Eboo Patel
Common Ground News Service - 06 January 2009
http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=24616&lan=en&sid=1&sp=0
This February 2009, President Obama named Eboo the first Muslim in the
newly created White House Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
The 25 religious and secular advisors will guide decisions on both
domestic and foreign policy issues.

"If we are to have partners for peace, then we must first be partners. . ."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Centennial Commencement Address, Pennsylvania State University
June 11, 195

"You don't have to be pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinians, one or the other. You
can be both."
- Melek Nasr-Totah
"It's is not possible to be "pro-Israel" if you are not "pro-Palestinian," and
vice versa. There is no such thing as one without the other."
- Gail Weinstein
"If we are to have partners for peace, then we must first be partners. . ."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Centennial Commencement Address, Pennsylvania State University
June 11, 1955