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The study is aimed at exploring the conditions of establishing the Palestinian universities, their possible relations and their role in the last 40 years with regard to a number of national, service and development issues. The study looks into the higher education course, especially under the Israeli occupation and after the Oslo Agreements. University programmes and courses are investigated whether they meet the marketplace requirements. Do they only play a functional role to provide mere workers with minimum qualifications to be used in the capitalistic production market and become part of the consumer society? Or do they give priority to consolidating a patriotic culture and promote the target of liberation? The theory of the paper is that traditional universities mainly emerged as reactions to certain political, partisan, factional or religious conditions or glorifying a role of a family which is interested in education. Their participation in the struggle against the occupation became more significant in the aftermath of Oslo in political decision-making and other national matters. They
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