Strangers in the House Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine

Name: Strangers in the House Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine
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ISBN: 9780142002933

ISBN-10: 0142002933

ISBN-13: 9780142002933

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Authors: Raja Shehadeh, Anthony Lewis

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This revealing story of a father-son relationship, the first memoir of its kind by a Palestinian living in the Occupied Territories, is set against the backdrop of Middle East hostilities and more than thirty years under military occupation. Marked by a sense of loss and impermanence and embroiled in political conflict, it is the family drama of a difficult relationship between an idealistic son and his politically active father-Aziz Shehadeh, who, in 1967, was the first Palestinian to advocate a peaceful, two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian dispute-a situation further complicated by the arbitrary humiliations of living under the occupier's law. Above all, it is a moving…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.94" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Raja Shehadeh is the author of the highly praised When the Bulbul Stopped Singing and Strangers in the House. A Palestinian lawyer and writer who lives in Ramallah, he is a founder of the pioneering human rights organisation, Al-Haq, an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists, and the author of several books about international law, human rights and the Middle East.