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Raja Shehadeh is Palestine's leading writer. He is also a lawyer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq. Shehadeh was a National Book Award finalist in 2023 and is the author of several acclaimed books published by Profile, including the Orwell Prize-winning Palestinian Walks. He lives in Ramallah.
Palestine's greatest prose writer
Observer
Going Home cements the author's reputation as the best-known Palestinian writing in English
- Ian Black, Guardian
Going Home is about searching for the meaning of 'home' when living in a city under occupation ... In this book, the bonds that bind Palestinians to the land are exposed. Personal and political, human and geographical histories are beautifully intertwined and preserved.
- Claire Kohda Hazelton, Spectator
An insightful, illuminating book
- Paddy Kehoe, RTE
Shehadeh's descriptive powers are balanced by the acuity of his political insights
The Big Issue
Praise for Where the Line is Drawn:
Brilliantly evokes the Palestinian tragedy by way of a complex friendship. This is a fiercely intelligent and honest account.
- Ian McEwan,
Shehadeh [...] is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy and wise.
- Colm Toibin,
A courageous and timely meditation on the fragility of friendship in dark times, illuminating how affiliation and love[...]can have a profound political power.
- Madeleine Thien,
Written with fierce clarity and unusual compassion, this book touches the human heart of a political tragedy.
- Gillian Slovo,
The question of how and if friendships can survive across political divides is a resonant one - and I can think of no one better than Raja Shehadeh to treat it with the wisdom, toughness and humanity that it deserves.
- Kamila Shamsie,
In the dark agony of the Palestine-Israel conflict, Raja Shehadeh offers a rare gift: a lucid, honest, unsparing voice. His humanity and wisdom are invaluable.
- Claire Messud,
The wisdom and elegance of Raja Shehadeh's thinking and writing are more necessary than ever. This book...appeals to - and speaks of - an insistence on dignity, regardless of borders and of endless war. Raja Shehadeh is a buoy in a sea of bleakness.
- Rachel Kushner,
This is one of the most intensely human and humane books one is likely to read in a very long while, replete with an elevating dignity and suffused with deep melancholy.
- Trevor Royle, Edinburgh Sunday Herald
Praise for Palestinian Walks:
'Few Palestinians have opened their minds and their hearts with such frankness
New York Times
Shehadeh writes beautifully, his language infused with a lyrical, melancholic sense of loss. An important record of a land marked by conflict that is changing every day
Sunday Telegraph
Shehadeh describes how the destruction of a beloved landscape mirrors the damage to Palestinian identity ... lyrical nature writing with understated political passion
Guardian
Palestine's greatest prose writer
Observer
Going Home cements the author's reputation as the best-known Palestinian writing in English
- Ian Black, Guardian
Going Home is about searching for the meaning of 'home' when living in a city under occupation ... In this book, the bonds that bind Palestinians to the land are exposed. Personal and political, human and geographical histories are beautifully intertwined and preserved.
- Claire Kohda Hazelton, Spectator
An insightful, illuminating book
- Paddy Kehoe, RTE
Shehadeh's descriptive powers are balanced by the acuity of his political insights
The Big Issue
Praise for Where the Line is Drawn:
Brilliantly evokes the Palestinian tragedy by way of a complex friendship. This is a fiercely intelligent and honest account.
- Ian McEwan,
Shehadeh [...] is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy and wise.
- Colm Toibin,
A courageous and timely meditation on the fragility of friendship in dark times, illuminating how affiliation and love[...]can have a profound political power.
- Madeleine Thien,
Written with fierce clarity and unusual compassion, this book touches the human heart of a political tragedy.
- Gillian Slovo,
The question of how and if friendships can survive across political divides is a resonant one - and I can think of no one better than Raja Shehadeh to treat it with the wisdom, toughness and humanity that it deserves.
- Kamila Shamsie,
In the dark agony of the Palestine-Israel conflict, Raja Shehadeh offers a rare gift: a lucid, honest, unsparing voice. His humanity and wisdom are invaluable.
- Claire Messud,
The wisdom and elegance of Raja Shehadeh's thinking and writing are more necessary than ever. This book...appeals to - and speaks of - an insistence on dignity, regardless of borders and of endless war. Raja Shehadeh is a buoy in a sea of bleakness.
- Rachel Kushner,
This is one of the most intensely human and humane books one is likely to read in a very long while, replete with an elevating dignity and suffused with deep melancholy.
- Trevor Royle, Edinburgh Sunday Herald
Praise for Palestinian Walks:
'Few Palestinians have opened their minds and their hearts with such frankness
New York Times
Shehadeh writes beautifully, his language infused with a lyrical, melancholic sense of loss. An important record of a land marked by conflict that is changing every day
Sunday Telegraph
Shehadeh describes how the destruction of a beloved landscape mirrors the damage to Palestinian identity ... lyrical nature writing with understated political passion
Guardian