begins right now but it does not in there no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat than the regime of saddam hussein and this is a regime that has something to hide they have prepared a significant propaganda machine and guess what not one. was found in iraq since one thousand nine hundred ninety one iraq deception on al-jazeera. hello and welcome to this week's rewind i'm elizabeth purana and if you've seen the

show before you know that we're taking another look at some of the very best documentaries we've made over the past decade here at al-jazeera english this week we rewinding back to two thousand and eleven when al-jazeera swiftness series followed the remarkable story of a young palestinian boys emotional journey from sharing a bed with his grandmother and two brothers in a rundown lebanese refugee camp to a place at eton college one of the most exclusive private schools in the u.k. founded more than five hundred years ago by the english king henry the sixth it's a long line to the rich and famous princes william and harry were both educated there as were nineteen former u.k. prime ministers were later we're finding out what's become of mohamed since he graduated from eton college but first let's take a look at mohamed that asian from the witness series back in two thousand and eleven.

this. this is a. this is a victory the biggest thing as you know that famous for its all of this is that it is those of us being a student. of this mohammed farhad is a sixteen year old student at the luxor school it's funded by the u.n. because palestinian refugees cannot attend lebanese schools these are the scores. mohamed jealous is the first one is a cause and if you look to see if this is for example which john pointed out of one hundred. and one hundred seventy year old one hundred one. beneficiary out. of the mohammed may be bright but as a refugee his opportunities for further education and jobs a severely limited. the conditions here out of his that i've been to the

people here here have suffered from many. many bad conditions as you see this old. need to have. mohammed's grandparents fled palestine from lebanon in one nine hundred forty eight and the family now lives in jim jim village with other palestinians this is my uncle's house. of our house is. this is my mother my grandmother the last been. genuine how we should but the i wish it and i wish you. luck learn them and follow the doctor if your more than they did their job. well know another level of know and this is. my bedroom. with my brothers and my grandmother. also my grandmother here my brothers here you know ground.

the younger one he go weak and sleep in there but i listen too much oh miss him when. mohammed has never left lebanon but he's about to embark on a life changing journey a fully funded sixth form scholarship to eton college in england. this is a letter by the headmaster of it on good loads the details of the horizon a scholarship given to him. he said we were very happy it will come out to eat on less. impressed by the way in which he embraced all aspects of his visit by the they make buttons i was very proud and embarrassed by this that almost all of. i mean no five hundred. when i knew. what i see i'm going to lose that. if you didn't say you can. the horizon

foundation will fund my habit for two years of study this is an amazing opportunity for leaving home is a huge step for both him and his family. he said is one of the world's most prestigious schools and is famous for its high achieving students tradition plays a large role here from the former uniform of black tails to eccentric annual events it costs nearly fifty thousand dollars a year to attend eton one in five of the people has received assistance and for the scholarship boys like mohammed expectations are high. the school is divided into twenty five boarding houses with about fifty boys in each mohammed's new home will be waynflete run by housemaster richard pratt and jane stevens known as the dame answer for the state against yeah well thank you very much and f.a.q. . question top yeah back.

to venice the uniform in the pocket change here at. the door and then there's the. she's right down for new boys so is your nightly overt things so there is just a routine day with the option for some person present there. was is ethical whether you should use them or lot with issues levels and how how you should how the should be used and mohammed is studying for a levels a two year exam course which will determine which university he gets into. i'm doing the film a physics chemistry biology and i'm doing our bit over there bill when the boys in the house told me that blowing the villa murther recess is maybe. in.

their sleep until returns on terror strike you don't think. flip the floggings small this very small place. with a third on the floor and different rooms just really with. the loss of pressure is interesting but. i found it very difficult yesterday it was the first for me thing was the microscope i was really confused i don't know what to do. oh it wants to go home one just to call by the end of this first year mohammed will be sitting his a s. exams fifty percent of his final grades. we need to clear away. so does nothing for time to think if. he didn't get a. high office it's really different sometimes it's really cool

sometimes i don't like it because let's be honest the best suited love is in your real goal what is it like last week sadly yeah that's the best you have about this . man it isn't just adapting to new school becoming any tony and means getting to grips with a whole host of traditions that even british boys might find curious like the school celebration of st andrew's day. they would have seen the person like since they were much bigger do you know very intimate that this is the fourth is all political it's called the old you almost always a very intimate yes a very good us learn to stay all of it is gone sometimes. in the same way that the colonies usually resented here three this is a pretty nice way of looking at the world just like your friends here for you ok thank you so i think it's. today mohammed is watching the war game one of the

strangest balloons that is only played each time. this is the quote of the feeling and you can see the boys sitting on the ward they have to take the boy and raise it from the ground and this is like a go in football game the. this is the first of a sense of oppression and even i. know i watched the whole game and i have to understand its rules. when i first arrived to my house i was a bit homesick coming to a boarding school is much more different we have rules for sleeping. living with

a newborn is sleeping alone in my room is really different. and it's difficult for mohammed doing eat the first time he's been away from home for this festival by the muscles so they then quits yeah they. take over the roof. yeah i was a bit said homesick because being far from my family from my problem was. it's a bit. this was the first it's not experience for me during which a big snowman. not to mention it as pure and soft as i followed it. experience. it's been a testing term but already mohammed has come a long way. he's done very well indeed is math and physics so please perform it on

a very high level there has been some things are two times that he's. doing a course that assumed a certain amount of background knowledge that he didn't have to do is work very hard to fill those gaps. i don't quite like him to get away from the desk a little bit into maybe tries hundred a few other things and it's a strange thing for teachers to be saying but actually not work what's going on right. now. this is the schoolyard of it and call is this is this. tenor of the six the person who is who he is our father all the people here here are very proud of him. this is the chapel of. eaton's gothic chapel is central to school life as a service almost every day and those of all faiths attend going to was one of them in the for us is. in them as a muslim i haven't been to

a church. but i was excited to go to discover well you know other people from different cultures. and the boys and the school truth and me as one of them but nevertheless many people think that islam is a violent religion at all i'm against this idea so i think it's my duty to try to change these ideas. mohammed is not the only muslim in the school and on some days they meet together with an. i think what will happen is that the islamic world will actually find its own sense of self confidence through the role prosy do think this will lead to what it did between arabs and muslims i mean like. why don't. i just think it's just an amazing moment so how is.

this a practice playing musical and he loves playing many instruments. and he's told me that i can reach my school through music and this is something you knew that i hear from him. today is the school concert and i'm thinking and it was thought that the best the single at the beginning of this and other really enjoyed it is the first singing experience for me. and the piece of music is called the queen am.

it's been a formative time for my hammett he's heading home to easter and the requiem is a fitting end he's been busy and flourishing and is having an impact on his academic work as well which is always strong and is getting stronger i'm very fortunate to have a house filled with musicians he's taking part in. this extraordinary occasion and i think he's coming around to my way of thinking. that actually it is part of what makes his wheel. if you will.

this is my exam i have fourteen exams this year which is massive i think compared to many other boys in my year this is the first public exams for me and account for i want to do i'm preparing i think. this term is dominated by exams for the boys do you get a morning off to watch the wedding of the year. award what the from the culprit that it's being in is very exciting. for you. it was a great work being. done. but it was very long. generally not really he came. to his legs there were other people and there

were. mohammed has had a busy few weeks but finally it's his last exam today no i'm not there in their first look this is the last min through vision when i was in labor i was the top of the class and. i'm like i'm the other student so i have to do. well this week was very tiring for me. exams from. day to day so i had to do a lot of provision specially in the last two days i think that this period. with exams over mohammed can enjoy the english summer.

so when you go to. someone catches the ball so ok so. let's. say very well. and. each his most famous annual event is called the fourth and commemorates the birthday of two . it's a reminder of the privilege education that the boys receive there's a slight danger that they may pass through reason with the notion that they are

more special rather than because it is not unusual place which has a lot of cultural baggage historical baggage so actually probably more important is that while they appreciate and recognize. they don't go away thinking they're too special. i met many who were really friendly with me and i discovered. from very. very really. backing braun's so it's one of the things that makes me more. the school. even has a long tradition of rowing and the day's highlight is watching the time honored procession of boats. pushing. into the city to do it one would expect not least into the shoes. for the boys.

they are really most like you so. well i've seen boys rowing before but it's a special thing today because they already during these special suits with the for the house with the flow was sweden always. with his first year nearing an end mohammed visits the family that has funded his scholarship and. he's just one of forty international students that they have helped you sort of lose a little bit of faith in a little bit of hope in terms of the whole political process ever reaching any sort of positive resolution at least in our lifetime and so you do what you can and i mean you you try in empowering young people i hope that they will then improve the lives of people in their community in terms of the long term i mean you see yourself going back to love the law or you see yourself saying around here or it's my. liver you know i want to study here and then go back to try to help my people

i mean palestinians who live in i think they really suffer from very bad conditions so i think it's it's the duty of people who had chances like me to go back and hell changing these but and this is for people. mohammed's applying to study engineering at university but it's one of the professions that he can't practice in lebanon because he's a palestinian refugee every thought. and i think about my future i following that situation is obstacle in front of me while i have to work even if i find obstacles in my way. it's the end of term and waynflete is packing up nothing else to go back to mohammed has been invited on a trip to europe with some of the boys before he heads home to lebanon i don't he's more excited actually i think because i know you are but we are too for you to be.

here here it would be very. good research and we want to thank you and it's a good job already but let's. have a great time not to do that. but. also about my. i think my experience here in prague in my mind i became more confident more thoughtful and more aware about what's happening in the world. and. in between my old cult and this cult. but. i'm still hard. and i think my experience made me more conscious about helping other people and.

that was more than six years ago and i'm sure you're wondering what's happened to muhammad well i'm pleased to say that he is joining us now from london studio great to see you muhammad so as we mentioned you graduated from eton in two thousand and twelve what's happened since i was very fortunate to be awarded another scholarship by the arising foundation to continue my studies at u.c.l. in london i was a. or did a job offer in london at a global engineering consultancy called macdonald where i've been working for more than a year now what sort of projects are you working on there i've been mainly working on two projects the first one is a road expansion in the u.s. actually after that ice the start of the way working on a. you just scheme in london called the cross trail and the aim is to

build and you read way that connects south west london with north east london do you have any plans of going back to the lead the norm or even go into palestine the reality at the moment is that as a palestinian i am deprived from the right to free and to palestine because of the israeli occupation there united nation has it offend our right as palestinians to go to back to our home countries every single year we have since nineteen forty eight since my grandparents were kicked out the united nations resolution one thousand for a fair and our right to go back we've never been allowed to go my grandmother who was featured in this documentary passed away two years ago without achieving her dream of going back so in terms of going to lebanon i love lebanon because my parents are i miss them and they miss me but the problem is that as palestinians in

lebanon we deprived from many civil rights we are not allowed to work in more than twenty professions me as a civil engineer i wouldn't be able to practice libin and many of my friends who have graduated from university have actually gone back to lebanon and at the moment they are still unemployed and so where is home for you now and how does your family feel that this has so far been a one way journey for you my dream is to be back in palestine and the ultimate goal of a home is actually palestine but at the same time i still have my childhood memories of lebanon i love lebanon because i grew up there my family is there the u.k. on the other hand has provided me with life changing opportunities. i spent the formative years of. made many friends i was made connections

so i would always have that connection but i continue to be in the back of my mind . thank you very much muhammad for joining us. now well that's it for this week you can find lots of other specially selected films on the . website but for now until next time i. return. people back to life i'm sorry with. the best of. following orders we've seen young people to fight these wars put them in the most complex situations you can imagine and have them make life and death decisions rewind on al-jazeera.

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