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, and the[...]
This title deals with life in Palestine today - what it is really like - day to day, from the Orwell Prize winning author, Raja Shehadeh. It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine. What most of us take for granted has to be caref[...]
When the author first started hill walking in Palestine, in the late 1970s, he was not aware that he was travelling through a vanishing landscape. Recording how the land felt and looked before various calamities, this title attempts to preserve, at least in words, the Palestinian natural treasures t[...]