Palestinians

===Education===
{{Main|Education in the State of Palestine|Education in Israel#Arab sector}}
The literacy rate of Palestine was 96.3% according to a 2014 report by the [[United Nations Development Programme]], which is high by international standards. There is a gender difference in the population aged above 15 with 5.9% of women considered illiterate compared to 1.6% of men.<ref name=UNDP2014>{{cite web|title=Education (2014)|website=United Nations Development Programme|publisher=United Nations|url=http://www.ps.undp.org/content/dam/papp/docs/Publications/UNDP-papp-research-PHDR2015Education.pdf|access-date=30 January 2017|archive-date=11 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311023628/http://www.ps.undp.org/content/dam/papp/docs/Publications/UNDP-papp-research-PHDR2015Education.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Illiteracy among women has fallen from 20.3% in 1997 to less than 6% in 2014.<ref name=UNDP2014/>

Palestinian intellectuals, among them [[May Ziadeh]] and [[Khalil Beidas]], were an integral part of the Arab intelligentsia.{{when|date=January 2017}} Educational levels among Palestinians have traditionally been high. In the 1960s the West Bank had a higher percentage of its adolescent population enrolled in high school education than did Lebanon.<ref>West Bank 44.6% versus 22.8% in Lebanon. See Elias H. Tuma, Haim Darin-Drabkin, ''The Economic case for Palestine,'' London: Croom Helm, 1978, p 48.</ref> [[Claude Cheysson]], France's Minister for Foreign Affairs under the first [[François Mitterrand|Mitterrand]] Presidency, held in the mid-eighties that, 'even thirty years ago, (Palestinians) probably already had the largest educated elite of all the Arab peoples.'<ref>Interview with Elias Sanbar. Claude Cheysson, "The Right to Self-Determination", ''[[Journal of Palestine Studies]]'', Vol. 16, no. 1 (Autumn 1986), pp. 3–12; p. 3.</ref>

Contributions to Palestinian culture have been made by diaspora figures including [[Edward Said]] and [[Ghada Karmi]], Arab citizens of Israel including [[Emile Habibi]], and Jordanians including [[Ibrahim Nasrallah]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Jordanian Poets: Samer Raimouny, Mustafa Wahbi, Haider Mahmoud, Ibrahim Nasrallah|isbn=978-1158408894|last1=Books|first1=General L.L.C|date=June 2010}}</ref><ref name=Pontas>{{cite web|url=http://www.pontas-agency.com/Autors/ENG/Ibrahim_Nasrallah_Ibrahim_Nasrallah_6955.asp |title=Biography Ibrahim Nasrallah |publisher=Pontas literary & film agency |access-date=14 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100526101818/http://www.pontas-agency.com/Autors/ENG/Ibrahim_Nasrallah_Ibrahim_Nasrallah_6955.asp |archive-date=26 May 2010 }}</ref>

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File:Secretary Kerry Speaks With Palestinian Youth in Bethlehem (10708795753).jpg|Palestinian students and John Kerry
File:Girls lining up for class - Flickr - Al Jazeera English.jpg|Palestinian schoolgirls
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