![An image depicting the following text: "This piece carries a deeply personal significance. I began drafting it during prolonged power outages and with little to no internet access. I vividly remember scribbling ideas on scraps of paper and typing notes on my phone, often under the echo of shelling and amidst unimaginable circumstances. Against all odds, the paper took shape, and today [16 July 2025], it’s finally out in the world.
In this article, I document my lived experience teaching university courses and leading the English Department at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza during wartime, employing methods and strategies that overcame, as much as possible, the many challenges we faced. It also tells the stories of colleagues and students who, despite destruction and isolation, chose to resist, with their voices, their words, and their will to continue learning.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xqt5fstkzvgne5ua6idenmlj/bafkreifh6dycv7av6mv4agvvqs2uif6h5itx7o43334f6yv7tfd73m5yt4)
An image depicting the following text: "This piece carries a deeply personal significance. I began drafting it during prolonged power outages and with little to no internet access. I vividly remember scribbling ideas on scraps of paper and typing notes on my phone, often under the echo of shelling and amidst unimaginable circumstances. Against all odds, the paper took shape, and today [16 July 2025], it’s finally out in the world. In this article, I document my lived experience teaching university courses and leading the English Department at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza during wartime, employing methods and strategies that overcame, as much as possible, the many challenges we faced. It also tells the stories of colleagues and students who, despite destruction and isolation, chose to resist, with their voices, their words, and their will to continue learning.
An image depicting the following text, continued from the previous image, alongside a photograph of Ahmed Kamal Junina: That is why I titled the article: 'Displaced but not replaced: challenges, adaptations, and resilience of higher education in Gaza in the context of war and scholasticide.' The article offers a close look at the deliberate and ongoing destruction of Gaza’s higher education system. I wrote it with my colleagues and students in mind. These are the people who continue to teach and learn under bombardment, in classrooms reduced to rubble or scattered across displacement camps. This is for them. For all those who remind us, even in the darkest of times, that the pursuit of knowledge in Gaza endures and cannot be silenced.
Dr Junina kindly shared the following introductory statement to accompany its publication. #IntellectualResistance #EducationAsResistance #VoicesFromGaza
