
“The Disability Under Siege project, aims to provide the intellectual, financial and logistical resources required to deliver a transformational step change in education provision for children with disabilities in conflict-affected states.”
Professor Dina Kiwan, Principal Investigator
Project Overview
Disability Under Siege is a co-created programme bringing together a community of researchers, educational practitioners, advocacy organisations and disability led groups in the UK and Middle East. It will contribute to research efforts by providing intellectual and logistical resources that local practitioners need to transform education provision for children with disabilities in conflict-affected countries.

Our research partners include Birzeit University (Palestine), Birmingham City University (UK), Islamic University of Gaza (Palestine), and the Lebanese American University (Lebanon), which bring complementary expertise in the fields of education under occupation, inclusion, public health and social action, visual culture and participative arts, disability and social justice.
News and Blogs

Lords Committee requests urgent review of the Life in the UK Test

The impact of COVID-19 on Persons with Disabilities in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan

Appointment to the Migration Advisory Committee

Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2021

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Palestinians with Disabilities

Mapping Inclusivity of Needs Assessment & Reconstruction Initiatives During Beirut Blast Recovery Response

Citizenship Life in the UK test

Dis/abled decolonial human and citizen futures

Disability Under Siege: decolonising knowledge on disability in contexts of conflict and crisis by Professor Dina Kiwan

Disabled people are being left out of COVID recovery. Here are five ways to change that

Network and Knowledge Exchange Funding Call - now open!

Innovative methods for researching disability and COVID-19 in the Global South

All In

What can the COVID-19 pandemic teach us about disability justice?

Global Perspectives on Sign Language Interpreting

Disability Under Siege: An Analytical Framework for a Disability-Inclusive COVID-19 Recovery

A letter to friends and colleagues; "What needs to be known, remembered, and acted upon."
The impact of COVID-19 on Persons with Disabilities in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan.
All Means All! How to support inclusive education and learning during these times of crisis.
Life Cycle and the Story of Inclusive Design

Disability under Siege Newsletter December 2021

All Means All!

How pandemic responses neglected disabled people’s rights
