Book Launch and Discussion

Author Raja Shehade, discussant Tania Tamari Nasir
Sunday, 20 October, 17:30–19:00
Place: the Palestinian Museum

The Palestinian Museum will host the launch of Palestinian author Raja Shehadeh’s book Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation. Walking the streets of Ramallah on the fiftieth year of the Israeli occupation, Raja Shehadeh records the changing face of the city he calls home. Strolling along the streets, he visits and remembers the places, people and events in his life and tells their stories and what has happened to them. As he grapples with ageing and the failures of the resistance, Shehadeh notes the ways that the past still invades the present. At times elegiac, Going Home, A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation, like all the best travel writing shows how the personal is also the political.

Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian author, lawyer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organization al-Haq. Shehadeh is the author of several acclaimed books including Strangers in the House; Occupation Diaries; Language of War, Language of Peace; and Where the Line is Drawn. In 2008, he won the Orwell Prize for Palestinian Walks, published by Profile. Shehadeh lives and works in Ramallah, Palestine.

The talk will be in English.
For organisational purposes, please register here.