Raja Shehadeh

Palestine

Raja Shehadeh is a lawyer, human rights activist, and writer. He studied English literature at the American University of Beirut and law at the College of Law in London. In 1979, Shehadeh co-founded the award-winning Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq. He is the author of several books on international law, human rights, and the Middle East, including Occupiers Law and From Occupation to Interim Accords. His literary books include Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine; Occupation Diaries; A Rift in Time: Travels with My Ottoman Uncle; Language of War, Language of Peace; Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape, which won the 2008 Orwell Prize; Where the Line Is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine; and Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation. His latest book is We Could Have Been Friends My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir, which

has been longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction in New York.


Source: Berlanda, Tomà, editor. Architecture of Commonality, Grounds for Hope. Berlin: ArchiTangle, 2024.

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