Hanan Al Hroub is a Palestinan teacher & educator and the recipient of the prestigious Global Teacher Prize. Growing up in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp Hanan wished to be a translator and would go on to study English at university. This changed though, after her children (9 year old twins & a 6 year son) and her husband were shot at during a stop at an Israeli army check point. Hanan made the decision to work in education, specifically with young children who had experienced trauma as a result of violent circumstances in which they grew up. She developed her own approach to educating traumatized children in her work with young students in refugee camps. She uses play as a way to resolve the tension and violence children experience as a result of trauma, sharing this method in a book, We Play and Learn. In 2016, Hanan became the second winner of the Global Teacher Prize, which award 1 million dollars to a teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession. Upon accepting the award, which was announced by Pope Francis, she shared her mantra “No to Violence” and said she would be using the award money to create scholarships for students who want to go into the teaching profession & to fund programs that use the technique she developed. Today, Hanan remains a second grade teacher in a school in el-Bireh, near Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine.