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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Raja Aziz Boulos Shehadeh (born 1951) is a Palestinian lawyer and writer , born in Ramallah , who currently lives in Ramallah , West Bank .
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His upbringing and family
Raja Shehadeh was born to a Palestinian Christian family in Ramallah. His grandfather, Salim, was a judge in the courts of the British Mandate of Palestine . His uncle, the journalist Najib Nassar, founded the Al-Karmel newspaper in Haifa in the final years of the Ottoman Empire , before World War I. His father, Aziz, was also one of the first Palestinians to publicly support the two-state solution , and was stabbed to death by unknown assailants in 1985.
Legal and literary professions
Raja Shehadeh studied law in London . Shehadeh is the founder of a human rights organization called Al-Haq , an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists. He has written several books on international law, human rights , and the Middle East . In 2008, he won the Orwell Award, Britain's preeminent award for political writing, for his book The Palestinian Walk. Shehadeh has been critical of the Palestinian National Authority for reclaiming their country. He resigned as an opposition adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization during the Madrid peace negotiations, and looks at the continuing hostility of the Palestinian diaspora to the lack of understanding of the reality of Palestinians who have suffered under occupation for decades. [ Shatts, editor of The Nation, described as one of two people who had a formative influence on his understanding of the Middle East conflict. 10
His published works
His published works include:
Strangers in the House (2002)
When the Nightingale Stopped Singing (2003)
Notes on Vanishing Landscapes (2008)
A Crack in Time: Travels with My Ottoman Uncle (2010)
Occupation Diaries (2012)
Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Borders in Occupied Palestine (2017)
Language of War and Language of Peace (2015)
Life Behind Israeli Checkpoints (2017)
What Israel Fears About Palestine (2024)
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