Raja Shehadeh's Books
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Palestinian WalksRaja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years,...Read More
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Huffington Post Canada, April 18, 2013
...the prize that will be announced on May 15 was the "Occupation Diaries" by Palestinian lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh who won the Orwell book prize in 2008. British human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith was nominated for a second time, this time for...
Hampton Roads Daily Press, April 18, 2013
...the prize that will be announced on May 15 was the "Occupation Diaries" by Palestinian lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh who won the Orwell book prize in 2008. British human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith was nominated for a second time, this time for...
BBC, April 18, 2013
...last year, two months after she died in the besieged Syrian city of Homs. Palestinian lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh, won The Orwell Prize for Books in 2008 with Palestinian Walks, was also shortlisted. Other authors that made the list include...
NewsRT.co.uk, April 18, 2013
...in the besieged Syrian city of Homs. Other books on this year's shortlist include Occupation Diaries by Raja Shehadeh, who won the prize in 2008 with Palestinian Walks, and Injustice by Clive Stafford Smith, who was shortlisted in the same year for Bad...
The Independent, April 17, 2013
...to overturn their decision to leave the region to conflict in Sri Lanka where she lost an eye. Raja Shehadeh, who won the Orwell prize for books in 2008 for his book, Palestinian Walks, has once again been shortlisted for a book that encapsulates the...
Guardian.co.uk, April 17, 2013
...From the Ruins of Empire , a re-telling of the last two centuries from an Asian perspective, former winner Raja Shehadeh for his diaries of life in Ramallah, Occupation Diaries , and human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith for Injustice , a case against...
Abu Dhabi National, April 15, 2013
...more insular. It’s one of the many fascinating arguments in Mishra’s timely book. Occupation Diaries by Raja Shehadeh (Profile) Shehadeh has actually won The Orwell Prize before for his book Palestinian Walks, a wonderful ramble through a...
New York Times, January 17, 2013
...Palestinian towns and villages. Any construction beyond the designated areas would be immediately demolished by the Israeli Army. Raja Shehadeh Then came the Oslo Accords, which divided the West Bank into Areas A, B and C. The Palestinian Authority...
Ross-shire Journal, January 15, 2013
...Been Trumped director Anthony Baxter, newly crowned Costa Poetry Prize winner Kathleen Jamie and Palestinian writer and lawyer, Raja Shehadeh. The ninth book festival takes place from May 10-12. Honorary president James Robertson will be reading from...
Stornoway Gazette, January 15, 2013
...such a range of guests. There will be best-selling Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin, Palestinian writer and lawyer Raja Shehadeh whose Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape, won the Orwell Prize in 2008, awarding winning poet and non-fiction...
The Nation Pakistan, December 31, 2012
...hands of the Israeli military and government much of which has been documented by Palestinian writer and lawyer Raja Shehadeh. His latest book Occupation Diaries is a collection of entries of daily life in the West Bank. Shehadeh is angry about the...
Haaretz, December 28, 2012
...Raja Shehadeh: An attempt to revive landscape, names and social contacts. On the plane on my way back from Istanbul, an acquaintance surprised me when he asked, in the midst of...
Irish Times, December 21, 2012
...Castle, hoping to replace these memories with kinder ones at an open-air talk given by the passionate walker, Raja Shehadeh about trekking in Palestinian territories. It was part of Enniskillen's Happy Days festival. Shehadeh explained the Palestinian...
The University News, December 7, 2012
...for Palestine; a step forward, but into quicksand. According to a New York Times blog post by author Raja Shehadeh, however, there is hope that this will bring back dignity for Palestine. As a semi-recognized state, Palestine has gained some...
