Recovering What Was Absented: a conversation with Munir Fasheh

Palestinian thinker and educator Munir Fasheh held a conversation titled Recovering What Was Absented, focusing on alternative approaches to knowledge sharing and exchanging, and means of extraction from colonial centralism.

Munir Fasheh is a learning theorist and practitioner, who taught mathematics and physics. Based in Ramallah, Fasheh founded the Tamer Institute for Community Education during the first Intifada as a center for developing learning environments outside of schooling in Palestine. After receiving his PhD in education from Harvard University in 1988, he founded the Arab Education Forum (AEF) at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies in 1997 which he directed for ten years. Since 2007, he has been working with groups in Palestine and Jordan to develop new approaches to collaborative learning.