Originally published at: OEG Voices 095: Saida Affouneh – OE Global Voices
Our 2026 season opens here, an inspiring conversation with Saida Affouneh, professor, researcher, and director of the E-Learning Center at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine. We got to learn about Saida via a nomination for a 2025 Open Education Award for Excellence, leading to her recognition as an awardee as an Educational Leader. Saida was a key voice on the panel discussion on the opening day of the OEGlobal Tour in October. We are honored to share with you this conversation recorded with Saida Affouneh in the podcast studio January 22, 2026. In the OEGlobal Voices podcast studio with…
We hope you take time to listen to the first OEG Voices for 2026 to hear @Saida share her passion and experiences as an educator in Palestine and what OER means for learners in zones of crises.
We touched many subjects but I am intrigued and trying to get her interested in perhaps for Open Education Week helping us learn more about OER in Arabic.
Take note of the new pin on the map of our podcast guests since 2020:
A few small changes in the published episodes- the episode image now displays just our guests (you don’t need to see me 
but also I decided for the featured image of each episode includes a background photo (open licensed of course!) of our guests location.
So for episode 95 the location photo is
Nablus panorama-cropped enhanced.jpg a photo from Wikimedia Commons by Anna Frodesiak shared under a e Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.
