Ramallah Friends School

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The Ramallah Friends School (Template:Langx) is a private school in West Bank, Palestine with campuses in the twin cities of Ramallah and al-Bireh.[1] The Friends Girls' School was inaugurated in 1869; the construction of the Friends Boys' School began in 1901 and the school opened in 1918.[2] The Schools were run by American Quakers.[3][4] Both campuses are now co-educational and divided into Senior and Junior sections; a Meeting House was built in 1910. The Swift Building, located in the upper School and named after Sara Swift of New England, was made the home of the Friends International Center in Ramallah after restoration work was completed.[5] During the First World War, the Boys' School was commandeered by Ottoman troops for use as a hospital during Allenby's assault on Palestine.[2] The school is currently headed by former student and teacher Rania Maayeh who is a member of the Friends United Meeting.[6]

Background

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Ramallah Friends School, 1937

The Friends Girls' School was originally opened as “The Girls' Training Home of Ramallah” and was renamed "Friends Girls' School" in 1919. Elihu Grant was the principal between 1901 and 1903. Both the Boys' and Girls' Friends Schools were designed and built by Dahoud Saah of Ramallah. The Lower School serves grades Pre-Kindergarten to fifth grade; the Upper School serves grades six to twelve.[7]

The school was first in the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire. It later was under the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, the British Mandate of Palestine, the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank (1948-1967), and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank (1967-1993), before being in the State of Palestine.

Location

The Lower School campus and kindergarten (Formerly Friends Girls' School) is located near the centre of the Old City of Ramallah on Hal Tabqa Sadik Street. The Lower School campus is located at Script error: No such module "Coordinates". The upper School campus (Formerly Friends Boys' School) is located along al Nahdha Street, al-Bireh[8] The Upper School campus is located at Script error: No such module "Coordinates".

Curriculum

The Friends Schools have offered, in both Arabic and English,[9] various educational curricula. As of 2011, they only offer the IB curriculum, optionally IB-no exam for those who wish to take the American SAT examination, but those students will have to apply through the AMIDEAST as it is no longer provided to students. The schools used to offer local governmental examinations: ‘Tawjihi’. The school was certified to provide the IB curriculum in 2001 by the International Baccalaureate organization.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

During the first Intifada, the Friends School was closed by the Israeli authorities—as was the case with all schools in Ramallah—during the years of 1988 and 1989, but it was reopened after the intifada.[10]

Swift House

The Friends International Center regularly hosts meetings with other NGOs such as the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and the Christian Peacemaker Teams.[11]

Notable alumni

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See also

References

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  1. ↑ M. Mukarram Ahmed, Muzaffar Husain Syed (2005) Encyclopaedia of Islam Anmol Publications PVT. LTD. Template:ISBN p 249
  2. ↑ a b Michael Dumper, Bruce E. Stanley and Janet L. Abu-Lughod (2007) Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: A Historical Encyclopedia ABC-CLIO, Template:ISBN p 310
  3. ↑ Manuela Marín and Randi Deguilhem (2002) Writing the Feminine: Women in Arab Sources I.B.Tauris, Template:ISBN pp 59-60
  4. ↑ "Sa’ed Atshan, Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (New Texts Out Now)." Jadaliyya. 22 December 2021.
  5. ↑ Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Script error: No such module "webarchive". Report on the Friends International Committee Consultation in Ramallah March 4 to 13, 2005
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  10. ↑ John Daniel, World University Service, Frederick De Vlaming, Nigel Hartley (1993) Academic Freedom 2: A Human Rights Report Zed Books, Template:ISBN p 81
  11. ↑ Ramallah Quakers Script error: No such module "webarchive". Friends International Center in Ramallah January - February 2009 Newsletter (Vol. III No. 1)

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External links

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