| Description | Folder of papers relating to the Friends of Bir Zeit University, set up by Elisabeth Monroe and others in 1979 to support the staff and students of the university in the West Bank in Palestine. There is correspondence with the Richmonds, Elizabeth Monroe, Diana Grimwood Jones and Ariel Kerem of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, an official leaflet, memoranda, discussion of papers in Oxford on the history of Bir Zeit, and a report from the International Committee for Palestinian Human Rights on Israeli attacks on the university. |