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We'am Hamdan

We’am Hamdan is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Her research reconceptualises the capability approach in the context of settler colonialism to examine how education, technology, and labour intersect in Palestine, focusing on graduates’ trajectories into the high-tech sector and the structures of power that shape them. She holds an MSc in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oxford and a BA in English Language and Literature from Birzeit University.

Knowledge, Partnerships, and Learning Under Scholasticide

Israeli checkpoint block in the West Bank

Education is often framed as a pathway to opportunity, where learning expands capabilities and opens routes to social and economic mobility. In Palestine, education operates as a site where this familiar narrative is unsettled, exposing how relations of power organise learning, labour, and possibility.

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