Dr Samah Jabr on 'Alienation and freedom: Education in the struggle for national liberation'

Leading Palestinian psychiatrist and writer, Dr Samah Jabr explores the system of oppression that alienates Palestinians in their homeland and how Palestinians have sought to overcome this. Dr Jabr examines how Palestinian education has been both an instrument of alienation and a site of resistance.
Dr Samah Jabr is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, writer, and Chair of the Mental Health Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health. She has been writing since the late 1990s, and has chronicled the Palestinian daily experience in numerous articles and lectures. Her book 'Derrière les fronts : chroniques d'une psychiatre psychothérapeute palestinienne sous occupation' [Beyond the Frontlines: Columns from a Palestinian Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist under Occupation] was published by PMN Editions in 2018. A documentary film, also entitled 'Derrière les fronts' and produced by Alexandra Dols, was released in 2017.