At the end of the semester I have to admit that the only course I studied and felt that I really learned a lot from it is the society and human rights course. I knew the rights that I’m enjoying while others can’t and felt thankful for this. I learned the rights that I’m not enjoying and realized that I am the only one who is able to get it be first knowing that this right is taken away from me. For example, as a Palestinian girl, I don’t have the right of free movement because Palestinians can’t travel to almost all of the Arab countries without getting a Visa that will take 3 to 4 months to be released. Also, in Palestine itself, I can’t visit the West Bank because my passport was released from Gaza and this system one of the dictator Israeli rules to make our lives more and more miserable. Moreover, as a girl in the Middle East, I don’t have the right to equal pay for equal work. Furthermore, where I live in, in Qatar, people are paid based on their nationalities not their work or intelligence.
I think this course should be mandatory to every student in Qatar University to study because it really will open your mind to things that you never knew anything about such as my right as a women and what it really means. I think that knowing your rights will save us and we won't have to wait again 30 or 41 years to start fighting for our rights.
Finally, I want to say thank you very much to my awesome professor Lacy Sloan and we will miss you a lot in Qatar University, The University that doesn’t appreciate the amazing professors and award them with the opposite way.
Thanks for all of my wonderful and amazing professors
