Raja Shehadeh (f. 1951) er en af de mest fremtrædende palæstinensiske forfattere.
Han bor i dag i Ramallah på den besatte Vestbred. Vandringer i Palæstina modtog den prestigefyldte
Orwell Prize og er oversat til en lang række sprog. Shehadeh er desuden
menneskerettighedsadvokat og aktivist og har grundlagt den prisbelønnede ngo Al-Haq. Hans
seneste bog, We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir (2022) var indstillet
til National Book Award.
Femogtyve år. Syv vandreture. Et Palæstina der er ved at forsvinde. Raja Shehadeh vokser op i den oldgamle havneby Jaffa i det daværende... Læs mere
Tre år før Raja Shehadeh blev født i Ramallah i 1951, var hans familie blevet fordrevet fra Jaffa. Hele hans barndom blev stærkt præget af familiens sorg over alt det, den havde mistet,... Læs mere
Raja Shehadeh reflects on ageing, failure, the occupation, and the changing face of Ramallah.
Life in Palestine today - what it is really like - day to day, from the Orwell Prize winning author, Raja Shehadeh.
When the author first started hill walking in Palestine, in the late 1970s, he was not aware that he was travelling through a vanishing landscape.... Læs mere
'Brilliantly evokes the Palestinian tragedy by way of a complex friendship. This is a fiercely intelligent and honest account.' - Ian McEwan
A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights
An elegy to memory: what is memorialised, what is not, and why
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as partners on the road to peace instead of genocide.
A diary of life under siege in Palestine, from the Orwell-prize winning and National Book Award-longlisted author and human rights activist
Raja Shehadeh was born into a successful Palestinian family. When the state of Israel was formed in 1948 the family were driven out to the provincial town of Ramallah. In 1985 his... Læs mere
From two leading writers and thinkers on Palestine: a profound meditation on memory and what we choose to memorialise