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In the occupied West Bank, more than 141 Palestinian university students were arrested between October 2023 and May 2024, often without clear charges.

Palestinian university students in the occupied West Bank live under the constant threat of being arrested by the Israeli military, often without trial or charge. At Birzeit University, a center of Palestinian intellectual life, a staff member who documents these arrests explains the challenges the best and brightest Palestinian students often face and the obstacles they pose to their futures.

In this episode:

• Sundos Hammad, coordinator of the Right to Education campaign at Birzeit University

Episode reference:

This episode was produced by Veronique Eshaya, Sarí el-Khalili and Sonia Bhagat, with Shraddha Joshi, Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh and our host Natasha del Toro for Malika Bilal.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our head of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.

Alexandra Locke is the executive producer of The Take. Ney Alvarez is the head of audio for Al Jazeera.

Veronique Eshaya is a student in the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

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