Palestinian lawyer, human rights activist and writer (born 1951)
Raja Shehadeh
رجا شحادة
Born
1951 (age 72–73)
Ramallah
Education
Birzeit University American University of Beirut, University of Law
Relatives
Najib Nassar (great-great-uncle)
Raja Shehadeh (Arabic: رجا شحادة, born 6 July 1951) is a Palestinian lawyer, human rights activist and writer.[1] He co-founded the award-winning Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq in 1979.[1] In 2008, he won the Orwell Prize, a British award for political writing, for his book Palestinian Walks.[2]
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RajaShehadeh (Arabic: رجا شحادة, born 6 July 1951) is a Palestinian lawyer, human rights activist and writer. He co-founded the award-winning Palestinian...
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Redmond Chang". Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb. Retrieved 2024-06-13. "RajaShehadeh, Yiyun Li and Maria Bamford among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists"....
1990. For a detailed account based on testimonies of eyewitnesses, see RajaShehadeh The Sealed Room, (London: Quartet, 1992) pp. 24–99'. "Judge Blames Israeli...
for the 2010 book A Rift in Time: Travels with My Ottoman Uncle by RajaShehadeh, and he was featured in esteemed Palestinian writer Ibrahim Nasrallah's...
National Book Critics Circle Awards. Gelt, Jessica (21 February 2024). "RajaShehadeh, Yiyun Li and Maria Bamford among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists"....
de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution 2008 RajaShehadeh Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape Winner Nick Cohen...
dramatisations of novels by Matt Beynon Rees. In July 2018 he narrated RajaShehadeh's biographical Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied...
Ynetnews. Shehadeh, Raja (1985a). Occupier's law: Israel and the West Bank. Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 978-0-887-28149-5. Shehadeh, Raja (Spring–Summer...
(famous poet, political leader and member of the Jordanian Parliament) RajaShehadeh (Orwell Prize-winning author and lawyer) Hasib Sabbagh (businessman...
Sands: The Unravelling of the Old Order in the Middle East, edited by RajaShehadeh and Penny Johnson, 113–127. London: Profile Books. Unreported World...
Jerusalem and the repatriation of Lydda and Ramle refugees. According to RajaShehadeh, Israeli effectively annexed the area of no man's land in 1967. No such...
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Mitchell: Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture 2013 RajaShehadeh: Is There a Language of Peace? Palestine Today and the Categorization...
the olive branch still influence literature today in works such as RajaShehadeh's "Diary of an Internal Exile: Three Entries" in which she writes about...
family lost their homes during the 1948 war. In A Rift in Time author RajaShehadeh explored the relationship between the decline of the Ottoman Empire...
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