Hanan Al Hroub is a Palestinian teacher who in 2016 was the second winner of the

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, which specialises in supporting children traumatised by violence.

Career

She grew up in the Dheisheh Palestinian refugee campDaud Abdullah
Education is a right being denied to Palestinian children, and Israel is the culprit

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28 August 2017 near

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, where she experienced and saw violent acts, and her own children were traumatized by a shooting incident in which her husband was shot in his car on an Israeli army checkpoint. She was studying English at university and wanted to become a translator. She decided to work in education after her 9 year old twins, and her 6 year old son were shot at by Israeli soldiers in October at the outset of the

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. She teaches Palestinian children in refugee camps, and her slogan is "No to Violence". She uses a specialised approach she developed herself, which uses play that is aimed at resolving violence and tension. The method is detailed in her book, ''We Play and Learn''. She has said that when she started teaching, "the violence that kids were seeing in the streets, they were carrying into the classroom," but that after a few months, their behavior and attitude improved dramatically.

Global Teacher Prize

In March 2016, Al Hroub was the second winner of the $1million

. The

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presents the annual award, and Al Hroub's award was commemorated in a video message from

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. The winner in 2015 was American teacher

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Family

She has 5 children. Her husband, Omar, served 10 years in an Israeli prison after having been convicted as an accomplice in a deadly 1980 bullet and grenade attack in

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in which six Israelis died while walking home to Beit Hadassah, a building into which Jewish settlers had recently moved, from Friday night Sabbath prayers. Omar al-Hroub was convicted by an Israeli court of being the chemist who provided chemicals needed for making the grenades. On his release, Omar al-Hroub endorsed the 1993 Oslo interim peace accord with Israel and the

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, and later served as a deputy Cabinet minister with the

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. The

commented that "the judging process examines the qualities and achievements of the candidates themselves only."

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'Despite Husband's Terrorist Links, Palestinian Teacher to Keep U.K. Non-violence Prize,'

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31 March 2016

References

External links

Hanan Al Hroub - Global Teacher Prize 2016 - Winner
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