Palestinian women making strides on campus
Aya Al Hindy’s red veil matches perfectly with her long red dress. A third-year student majoring in ethics and nutrition, she says women on campus feel more and more at home.
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Birzeit University is just a ten minute drive from Ramallah, the Palestinians’ financial and political capital.
Some 70 percent of the students are women. Some are veiled, others wear jeans. While traditional Palestinian society frowns on women smoking, women here on campus smoke openly.
“We respect all of our students but particularly female students, Birzeit University President Khalil S. Hindi told The Media Line. “We try to enable them with a “get up and go” mentality and we succeed in that.
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