MSN Chat Room
The MSN Chat Room proposal aims to permit lecturers
and students from An-Najah National University and the
International universities students and lecturers to discuss the
important and controversial topics of the Middle East Conflict in
an open interactive dialogue. This life and interactive
opportunity would be enabled through The MSN Chat Room technique.
The goal is to reveal the Palestinian perspective
and impart personal experiences from the Conflict. This is a
precious opportunity for personal contact with people living
directly in a troubled region at the centre of the international
focus. It will allow the international participants to gain
valuable insight into what the people directly involved in this
conflict are thinking.
Likewise, it will provide the Palestinian students
with a chance to see how
they are perceived by the outside world.
The open dialogue will reveal very valuable facts and information
to both sides that the each needs to know in order to fully
understand the other’s stance and viewpoints.
Executive Summary
Unfortunately the media often twists
and sensationalizes the news, in the process creating false
perceptions and a negative image about the Palestinians and their
struggle for freedom from Israel occupation. Few reporters spend
any real time in the West Bank. They are often afraid of even
being there or disliking the lack of comfort as opposed to the
comfort available in modern Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. Even worse,
most of them have no concept of Arabic or Palestinian culture, or
the region’s history. They normally do not speak Arabic or
personal knowledge of the different locations in Palestine.
An-Najah students and teachers are
suffering as well as the rest part of the Palestinian society,
which manages its daily life under the imposed Israeli siege; this
situation inflicts their academic life and educational process.
This intellectual group could represent the daily Palestinian
life, and the different Palestinian perspective toward the
conflict and its political affiliation.
Through The MSN Chat Room, Zajel
would like to discuss the hot topics of the conflict and reveal
the Palestinian point of view toward the current situation. We are
trying to show the Palestinian side of the issue, not only in the
political dimension, but also in the field of culture, religion
and daily Palestinian life, our point of view is something that
might be new for some of you. Our students and teachers will talk
to you life from the midst of almost 3 years of uprising and 35
years of Israeli occupation of our lands.
In such MSN Chat Room, Our students
and teachers will be available on line every day, they will be
connected to individual MSN`s and MSN groups in order to have more
and more interested international chatters, they will be ready to
discuss any topic with the global students,
Zajel aims to create a dynamic
learning environment for cultural understanding, and to provide
experience in sharing and partnership in order to achieve better
understanding and respect between people. Overall, its goal is to
build a wide network of young people willing to make a difference
and truly act as democrat leaders for change in their societies.
Program
Goals
1.
To raise awareness of the issues and problems
facing the
Middle East and enhance understanding of the Palestine Question.
This would be of particular benefit to broaden the understanding
of students of Journalism, Political Science, Middle East Studies,
History and International Relations.
2.
To provide a clearer picture about what is
happening in the occupied lands. Since the current uprising there
have been nearly no tourists from abroad who can tell about the
circumstances in the villages and cities of
Palestine. So, we would like to get benefit of the technology of
the MSN Chat Project in order to shed light upon this information.
3.
To give first hand accounts of the occupation. To
reveal insight into the life and thoughts of the people living in
Palestine. It will also allow Palestinians to see
how they are viewed from abroad.
4.
To learn about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
from a perspective rarely brought into the mainstream Western
discourse. The hope is to initiate an open-minded discussion that
includes the Palestinian perspective.
Project
Brief
We
propose to establish a network between our university students,
teachers and the international universities students and teachers,
this could happen through the proposed MSN Chat Room. which will
enable both sides to discuss the hot subjects facing the Middle
East daily life, such as the Occupation, Suicide Mission,
Terrorism, Resistance, Islam phobia, Peace Process and Islamic
Culture and Globalization.
This
could happen through the direct chat between both sides, in which
they will discuss the above mentioned topics through the MSN Chat
Room.
Chatters will be available on line every day, on a specific
schedule, which will enable all interested students and teachers
from all over the world to contact us and start the communication
with our students and teachers.
Specifications
The
MSN Chat Room Project's duration could be open, as those students
who start the links will follow up at home or at the coffee nets,
which means we will have the possibility to run the project
individually, The
dialogue on the MSN will allow the participants to:
·
Debate and discuss their opinions about the
Conflict
·
Express his/her opinion about the Middle East
Conflict
·
Reply to one another’s questions
·
Strengthens the mutual understanding
·
Narrow the gap between both perspectives.
·
Create an atmosphere of global network which works
for better relationships between east and west.
Participants
Our
proposal is to organize the MSN Chat Room's meeting in between our
both sides for a flexible time. It would include students and
lecturers from both sides. The exact number can be worked out
mutually according to the details worked out in the partnership.
Ideally, it includes 8 participants from each side for the whole
duration of the project.
We
do propose to promote the project across universities all over the
world, inviting them to join us, and add those who are interested
to be added to the project, we can either add them to the personal
MSN accounts or formal chat rooms, both are good ideas.
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