REWIND

Two Schools in Nablus: Learning to Die

In 2007, we followed pupils and teachers struggling to get or deliver an education in the West Bank. What has changed?

Ten years ago, in November 2006, Al Jazeera English was launched. To mark that anniversary, we’ve created REWIND, which updates some of the channel’s most memorable and award-winning documentaries of the past decade. We find out what happened to some of the characters in those films and ask how their stories have changed in the years since our cameras left.

In 2007, Al Jazeera’s Witness strand commissioned a special series, Two Schools in Nablus, from filmmakers Tom Evans and George Azar, which documented the extraordinary daily struggle of getting and delivering an education under the constant threat of violence and intimidation.

In this episode of the series, Learning to Die, things were about to get much worse for pupils and teachers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town.

Now, all these years later, REWIND asks: Has anything really changed?

Watch this episode and the rest of the original Two Schools in Nablus series.

Special thanks to Ghassan Khader who contributed to this series from Nablus.