Lincoln College

LINCOLN COLLEGE SCHOLARS

from left to right:

Samuel Diaz Pulgar (Venezuela, Master of Public Policy), Prerna Wadikar (India, Master of Business Administration), Bigyan Regmi (Nepal, MSc in Economics for Development)

not in the picture:

Fizza Rahman (Pakistan, MSc Economics for Development), We’am Hamdan (Palestinian Territories, MSc Comparative and International Education

My parents have always instilled in me the importance of education as I grew up. I recall my father always saying, “Education is a form of resistance.” As a Palestinian, I remember the days when I used to hold my siblings’ tiny hands and pass the checkpoint to reach to our school in Ramallah at the beginning of the uprising in 2000. This was the reality of a generation that grew “ up facing restrictions on movement on a daily basis. Those images are still deeply engraved in my memory and they helped me to envisage my aspirations for the future. This is why I chose the International and Comparative Education pathway for my MSc at Oxford University. Before coming to Oxford, I thought about all the educators, teachers, colleagues, and friends, who believed in my ability to showcase the problems faced by educators and students in Palestine, so we can collectively think of evidence-based interventions.”

We’am Hamdan

Palestinian Territories MSc Education (Comparative and International Education) Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann-Sackler, Lincoln College