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Bringing Gaza Is Our Home into Classrooms

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Universities are spaces where difficult conversations can be explored with depth, curiosity, and empathy. Gaza Is Our Home has become a powerful educational tool in classrooms and campus programs across the United States.

Through documentary storytelling, the film invites students and faculty to move beyond headlines and statistics and engage with the lived experiences of families in Gaza.

Screenings often include discussions, teach-ins, and live conversations that allow audiences to explore the film’s themes from academic, social, and human perspectives.

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The Film As An Invitation

— For Professors

Gaza Is Our Home offers educators a meaningful way to bring real human stories into discussions about global events, media narratives, and social responsibility.

The film has been used across a wide range of disciplines, including:

  • Film & Media Studies
  • Political Science
  • Middle Eastern Studies
  • History
  • Sociology
  • Journalism
  • Human Rights Studies
  • Peace & Conflict Studies
  • Education & Curriculum Studies

Rather than focusing on abstract political analysis, the film centers personal stories that help students understand the human impact behind global events.

Many faculty members integrate the film into:

  • classroom screenings
  • course discussions
  • guest lectures
  • interdisciplinary panels
  • campus teach-ins

The film helps bridge academic theory with lived human experience, creating opportunities for thoughtful dialogue and deeper reflection.

What Students Can Engage With

For many students, Gaza Is Our Home becomes more than a film—it becomes a moment of reflection and conversation.

The documentary invites students to engage with questions about:

  • Conflict and peacebuilding

  • Displacement and belonging

  • Human rights and dignity

  • Environmental consequences of war

  • Media representation and dehumanization

  • Diaspora and identity

  • Family and memory

  • Storytelling as advocacy

  • Ethics of documentary filmmaking

  • Community organizing and social action

Campus screenings often become spaces where students can ask questions, share perspectives, and connect academic ideas with real human experiences.

Many programs also include live discussions with filmmaker Monear Shaer, giving students the opportunity to hear directly from the person behind the story.

Faculty Endorsements

"If you are considering sponsoring a screening, there is no more urgent film than Gaza Is Our Home that needs to be shared. If you want a better sense of what's truly at stake in the ongoing tragedy, getting to know Mr. Shaer's family over the course of his program brings the complexity of international politics back to the human."

— Dr. Squires

Associate Professor, Department of English
University of Louisiana

“I wholeheartedly endorse and recommend Shaer’s powerful event series for use within a myriad of academic settings. The program is ideal for film studies, social studies, teacher education, as well as history and political courses looking to engage students in a profound way.”

— Dr. Pedroni

Associate Professor, Curriculum Studies
Wayne State University

Bring the Program to Your Campus

For many students, Gaza Is Our Home becomes more than a film—it becomes a moment of reflection and conversation.

The documentary invites students to engage with questions about:

▶ how stories are told and who gets to tell them

▶ the human lives behind global headlines

▶ the role of media in shaping public understanding

▶ empathy, identity, and cultural memory

▶ the responsibility of witnessing and storytelling

Campus screenings often become spaces where students can ask questions, share perspectives, and connect academic ideas with real human experiences.

Many programs also include live discussions with filmmaker Monear Shaer, giving students the opportunity to hear directly from the person behind the story.

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