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Description of Palestinian Walks: Notes from a Vanishing Landscape

This work covers over two decades of turmoil and change in the Middle East, steered via the history-soaked landscape of Palestine. Raja Shehadeh, celebrated human rights campaigner and lawyer, navigates recent Palestinian history, from Ayn Kenya to the Shukba Caves, the Ramallah hills and the Dead Sea. Literally entwined within the chinks and fissures of these walks is a mine of conflict and failures, which Shehadeh chronicles with vigour and poignancy.

Title Information

ISBN:

9781861978042

Pages:

240 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

250677

Publisher:

Profile Books

Published:

23/08/2007

Press and Industry Reviews

'This harrowing book is an impassioned cry from the soul for decency.' What's On In London 'Bitter, honest and shocking, we see this most open wound of the Middle East in a way that makes us question what it means to be human.' Good Book Guide 'A gifted raconteur of anecdotes that are parable-like in their compactness, richness, and in being eminently re-tellable, and as subtle and introspective a narrator and observer of himself and all in his midst as one could possibly hope for.'
- Journal of Palestine Studies

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About Raja Shehadah

Raja Shehadeh is the author of the highly praised When the Bulbul Stopped Singing and Strangers in the House (both Profile). A Palestinian lawyer and writer who lives in Ramallah, he is a founder of the pioneering human rights organisation, Al-Haq, an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists, and the author of several books about international law, human rights and the Middle East.