After meeting with the Dean and Head of Fine Art Faculty, we're set to begin the intensive graphic novel project with a group of art students. An-Najah University is divided into two campuses, the old and the new. The old is located closer to the centre of the city and houses mostly Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences. The new campus is Nablus’s proudest project as it sits on the top of a mountain, regal and pristine with the new library being constructed. This campus houses their Law, Engineering, Art and Health programs. As you walk through the security gates, your first glimpse is the rich landscape of west of Nablus including rolling hills, clear blue sky and gleaming white tile stairs leading you down to lower levels of the university. There are amazing, well educate professors but because of the restrictions of movement and access to goods is limited, the resources are poor. Even for the Faculty of Arts, the students that can afford supplies can’t even buy some of the necessary supplies for this project. Once the course began, I took the following weekend to make a trip to Jerusalem to pick up necessary supplies for my students at An-Najah, which takes 2 hours through checkpoints when in the year 2000 it could take 45 minutes. s a very structured program where students choose their discipline the first semester and then work nine months out of the year (12 when you include summer semester) to complete a five year program. This course is arranged to give them an extra credit on their transcripts and two exhibitions in Nablus as well as publishing both in Palestine and Canada.
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