Raja Shehadeh

Strangers in the House (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Raja Shehadeh was born into a successful Palestinian family with a beautiful house overlooking the Mediterranean. When the state of Israel was formed in 1948 the family were driven out to the provincial town of Ramallah. There Shehadeh grew up in the shadow of his father, a leading civil rights lawyer. He vowed not to become involved in politics or law but inevitably did so and became an important activist himself.

In 1985 his father was stabbed to death. The Israeli police failed to investigate the murder properly and Shehadeh, by then a lawyer, set about solving the crime that destroyed his family. In Strangers in the House, Shehadeh recounts his troubled and complex relationship with his father and his experience of exile - of being a stranger in his own land. It is a remarkable memoir that combines the personal and political to devastating effect.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847654120
• Artikelnr.: 38357145

Autorenporträt

Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian lawyer and writer who lives in Ramallah. He is the founder of a pioneering human rights organisation called Al-Haq, an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists. His most recent book, Palestinian Walks, won the 2008 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.