Background
Raja Shehadeh was born in 1951 in Jaffa, Israel. He is the son of Aziz, an attorney, and Wedad Shehadeh.
Ramallah, West Bank
Shehadeh at his working place
Ramallah, West Bank
Raja Shehadeh
Ramallah, West Bank
Raja Shehadeh
Ramallah, West Bank
Raja Shehadeh
Ramallah, West Bank
Raja Shehadeh reads during the Palestine Festival of Literature in Ramallah
Ramallah, West Bank
Raja Shehadeh
Ramallah, West Bank
Raja Shehadeh
(Describes the daily lives of Palestinians living under Is...)
Describes the daily lives of Palestinians living under Israeli rule and depicts the tactics the Israeli government is using to force Palestinians out of the country.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0915361027/?tag=2022091-20
1984
(This book represents an in-depth legal analysis of the le...)
This book represents an in-depth legal analysis of the lengthly and complicated agreements signed between Israel and the PLO. The legal and administrative developments that took place in the Palestinian areas over the past twenty years are surveyed and closely analysed, providing the background essential to an understanding of the agreements signed between Israel and the PLO. The negotiation process is critically considered and the pot-agreement legislation is reviewed.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9041103848/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank s...)
The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road. Israeli soldiers patrolled from the roof toops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used him as a human shield as they went through the building, while his wife tried to keep her composure for the sake of their frightened childred, ages four and six. This is an account of what it is like to be under seige: the terror, the frustrations, the humiliations, and the rage.
https://www.amazon.com/When-Birds-Stopped-Singing-Ramallah/dp/1586420690/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys noth...)
Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the landscape he traverses is now the site of a tense standoff between his fellow Palestinians and settlers newly arrived from Israel. In this original and evocative book, we accompany Raja on six walks taken between 1978 and 2006.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015DWM66/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(Raja Shehadeh is the most celebrated Palestinian writer w...)
Raja Shehadeh is the most celebrated Palestinian writer working today. To his surprise, when researching his family history, he discovered a great uncle who had also been a writer entangled with the authorities, and who, like Raja, had dedicated his life to the freedom of the Palestinian people. Najib was a journalist and romantic living in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire. When he voiced his opposition to Ottoman participation in the First World War, a death sentence was put on his head. So he fled, living on the run and off the land for nearly three years. The quest for Najib, the details of his life, and the route of his great escape consumed Raja for two years. As he traces Najib's footsteps, he discovers that today it would be impossible to flee the cage that Palestine has become.
https://www.amazon.com/Rift-Time-Travels-Ottoman-Uncle/dp/1846683300/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(This revealing memoir of a father-son relationship, the f...)
This revealing memoir of a father-son relationship, the first of its kind by a Palestinian living in the occupied territories, is set against the backdrop of Middle East hostilities and more than thirty years of life under military occupation. Three years after his family was driven from the coastal city of Jaffa in 1948, Raja Shehadeh was born in the provincial town of Ramallah, in the rural hills of the West Bank. His early childhood was marked by his family's sense of loss and impermanence, vividly evoked by the glittering lights "on the other side of the hill." Growing up "in the shadow of home," he was introduced early to political conflict.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008EDPO2O/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell ...)
It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine. What most of us take for granted has to be carefully thought about and planned for: When will the post be allowed to get through? Will there be enough water for the bath tonight? How shall I get rid of the rubbish collecting outside? How much time should I allow for the journey to visit my cousin, going through checkpoints? And big questions too: Is working with left-wing Israelis collaborating or not? What affect will the Arab Spring have on the future of Palestine? What can anyone do to bring about change? Are any of life's pleasures untouched by politics?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1781250170/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(At a time when the Middle East dominates media headlines ...)
At a time when the Middle East dominates media headlines more than ever - and for reasons that become ever more heartbreaking - Shifting Sands brings together fifteen impassioned and informed voices to talk about a region with unlimited potential, and yet which can feel, as one writer puts it, 'as though the world around me is on fire'? Collecting together the thoughts and insights of writers who live or have deep roots in there, Shifting Sands takes a look at aspects of the Middle East from the catastrophic long-term effects of the carving up of the region by the colonial powers after World War One to the hopes and struggles of the Arab spring in relation to Egypt, Iran and Syria.
https://www.amazon.com/Shifting-Sands-Unravelling-Order-Middle-ebook/dp/B00T9XL3FA/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(When conflicts become entrenched over generations, the la...)
When conflicts become entrenched over generations, the language of war infiltrates everyday life, concealing destruction and hardening positions. Nowhere is this truer than in the Middle East. Award-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the politics of language and the language of politics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reflecting on the walls that they create - legal and cultural - that confine today's Palestinians just like the borders, checkpoints and so-called "Separation Barrier". He shows how the peace process has been ground to a halt by twists of language and linguistic chicanery that have degraded the word "peace" itself.
https://www.amazon.com/Language-War-Peace-Palestine-Justice/dp/1781253765/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(Shehadeh explores how occupation has affected him persona...)
Shehadeh explores how occupation has affected him personally, chronicling the various crossings that he undertook into Israel over a period of forty years to visit friends and family, to enjoy the sea, to argue before the Israeli courts, and to negotiate failed peace agreements. Those forty years also saw him develop a close friendship with Henry, a Canadian Jew who immigrated to Israel at around the same time Shehadeh returned to Palestine from studying in London. While offering an unforgettably poignant exploration of Palestinian-Israeli relationships, Where the Line Is Drawn also provides an anatomy of friendship and an exploration of whether, in the bleakest of circumstances, it is possible for bonds to transcend political divisions.
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Line-Drawn-Friendships-Israel-Palestine/dp/1620972913/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(In Going Home, Orwell Prize-winning author Raja Shehadeh ...)
In Going Home, Orwell Prize-winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changing face of the city. Walking along the streets he grew up in, he tells the stories of the people, the relationships, the houses, and the businesses that were and now are cornerstones of the city and his community. This is, in many ways, an elegy.
https://www.amazon.com/Going-Home-through-fifty-occupation/dp/1788163060/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Raja Shehadeh was born in 1951 in Jaffa, Israel. He is the son of Aziz, an attorney, and Wedad Shehadeh.
Shehadeh studied law in London, graduating in 1973.
Raja Shehadeh is a lawyer and writer who lives in the Ramallah refugee camp. He works as attorney in private practice in Ramallah since 1980. Before that, he was a part-time instructor in law at the Bethlehem University. He was also a visiting fellow in Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School in 1988.
He is a founder of the pioneering, nonpartisan human rights organization Al-Haq, an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists.
Shehadeh is the author of several books on international law, human rights, and the Middle East, including Strangers in the House and Occupation Diaries. In July 2018, his biographical Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine was chosen for BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week, and was narrated by actor Peter Polycarpou. His most recent book, Going Home: A walk through fifty years of occupation, which was published in August 2019.
(At a time when the Middle East dominates media headlines ...)
2015(Shehadeh explores how occupation has affected him persona...)
2017(This revealing memoir of a father-son relationship, the f...)
2012(Describes the daily lives of Palestinians living under Is...)
1984(When conflicts become entrenched over generations, the la...)
2015(This book represents an in-depth legal analysis of the le...)
1997(In Going Home, Orwell Prize-winning author Raja Shehadeh ...)
2019(Raja Shehadeh is the most celebrated Palestinian writer w...)
2010(It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell ...)
2013(The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank s...)
2003(Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys noth...)
2008Shehadeh was critical of the Palestinian National Authority for having imported on its return the prejudices of the Palestinian diaspora. He himself resigned his work as an advisor in dissent from the PLO during the Madrid peace negotiations, and considers the continuing hostility of the Palestinian diaspora for failing to come to terms with the realities of Palestinians who have endured the occupation for decades, and who have built their civic institutions while exercising the traditional values of sumud rather than indulging in impractical cults of heroism.
Raja is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home.
Shehadeh married Penny Johnson, a writer, in 1988.