Palestinian Walks Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

Name: Palestinian Walks Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
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ISBN: 9781416569664

ISBN-10: 1416569669

ISBN-13: 9781416569664

Edition: 2008

Authors: Raja Shehadeh

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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 landscape he traverses is now the site of a tense standoff between his fellow Palestinians and settlers newly arrived from Israel. In this original and evocative book, we accompany Raja on six walks taken between 1978 and 2006. The earlier forays are peaceful affairs, allowing our guide to meditate at length on the character of his native land, a terrain of olive trees on terraced hillsides,…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 6/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" 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.




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