ABSTRACT
The Palestinian student movement renewed activity on campus at a significant turning point in the history of Palestinian politics. At the end of the first Gulf War, as the Intifada tapered to its conclusion, campuses began to reopen across the Palestinian territories. Fatah and its left wing predecessors throughout the 1980s, the Islamic Bloc promoted its social agenda through campus activity. Amidst the dispute between political compromise and armed resistance, members of the Islamic Bloc presented themselves as the heirs apparent of the armed struggle against Israel. The Islamic Bloc considered shaping the image and status of women to be a starting point for widespread social change. In light of Fatah's first electoral defeat since having taken control of the student council of Birzeit - Palestine's most politically important campus -members of the Shabiba published a new student magazine. The first issue of Sawt al-Shabiba focused on the movement's loss in the student council elections at Birzeit.
