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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, 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 Palestinian Distractions . 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 examines the continuing hostility of the Palestinian diaspora due to a lack of understanding of the reality of Palestinians who have suffered under occupation for decades. [ Shatts, editor of The Nation, described him as one of two people who have been formative in his understanding of the Middle East conflict.
His published works
His published works include:
Strangers in the House (2002)
When the Nightingale Stopped Singing (2003)
Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (2008)
A Crack in Time: Travels with My Ottoman Uncle (2010)
Occupation Diaries (2012)
Where a Line is Drawn: Crossing Borders in Occupied Palestine (2017)
The Language of War and the Language of Peace (2015)
Life Behind Israeli Checkpoints (2017)
What Israel fears from Palestine (2024)
Palestinian Journeys (2007)
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