Raja Shehadeh

2023 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction A subtle psychological portrait of the author’s relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights. Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee. He was also the father of...

In a dazzling mix of reportage, analysis, and memoir, the leading Palestinian writer of our time reflects on aging, failure, the occupation, and the changing face of Ramallah. In Going Home, Raja Shehadeh, the Orwell Prize-winning author of Palestinian Walks, takes us on a series of journeys...

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...

A moving account of one man's border crossings - both literal and figurative - by the award-winning author of Palestinian Walks, published on the 50th anniversary of the June 1967 War In what has become a classic of Middle Eastern literature, Raja Shehadeh, in Palestinian Walks, wrote of his...