The Wadi el-Far’a ProjectA Birzeit University - Calvin College Partnership

An ALO/USAID-funded Project

OutlineI. Partnership for Peace in Education

and DevelopmentII. Sustaining the Wadi el-Far’a:

Realities and IdealsIII. Vision: Local Field School for the Study of

“The Eco-cultural Landscape”

I. Partnership for Peace in Education and Development

Course: The EnvironmentalGeographyof Palestineand Jordan (2001)

Greetings from project co-director Dr. Kamal Abdulfattah, Prof . of Geography, Birzeit University. Kamal was to be here, but two days before his departure he was trapped at home in Jenin. Project administrator Ms Riham Barghouti IS here, and brings greetings from Kamal and Birzeit President Hanna Nasir.

I. Partnership for Peace in Education and Development

I. Partnership for Peace in Education and Development

Persistence in Adversity:Overcoming the obstacles to complete the projectCameraderie and building friendship

26 July 2002. The team at final workshop in Beit Hanina, Palestine

I. Partnership for Peace in Education and Development

II. Sustaining the Wadi el-Far’a: Realities and Ideals

A. The Natural Landscape

TopographyPhysical geographyGeologyHydrologyClimateBio-diversity

A mid-wadi view

II. A. The Natural Landscape

II. B. The Human Landscape

Irrigation Agriculture

II. B. The Human Landscape

II. B. The HumanLandscape

Town

Bedouin Camp

Water Rights interview

II. B. The Human LandscapePast Communities: Archaeological survey - 110 sites

El ‘Issar Mill

II. Sustaining the Wadi el-Far’a

C.Recommendations

a 20-page wish list

HIGH PRIORITY MEASURES

rescue environment

conservation of heritage

relief for communities

Building sustainability regulation of landscape use monitoring the environments enhancing participation

II. C. Recommendations - Long term measures

Restructuring landscape and community coordination: vision of an integrated landscape democratization: vision of a single community

III. Vision: Local Field School for the Study of “The Eco-cultural Landscape of el-Far’a”Creating a pioneering model for Palestine

III. Vision: The Future of the Wadi el-Far’a Project A new two-year phase the partnership for peace the Environmental Geography course research and publication implementing the vision