Forgotten Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials
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Raja Shehadeh is Palestine's leading writer. A lawyer and human rights activist, he is the author of the Orwell Prize-winning Palestinian Walks. Penny Johnson is a founding member of the Institute of Women's Studies at Birzeit University, a Contributing Editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly and author of Companions in Conflict.Shehadeh is engaged, forensic, alert to history's weight but unwilling to let it crush him... Shehadeh's books are like beacons held up against the darkness of Israeli oppression. Forgotten is perhaps the brightest light of all
Observer
A heartbreaking, hopeful look at how Palestinian culture endures in spite of the occupation
Irish Times
Slim but profound
New Statesman
An inspiring account... insightful
Georgraphical
This precious jewel of a book is a call to preserve the past in order to secure the future. Its hauntingly evocative prose stays with you long after its final pages have been turned
Middle East Eye
The authors have a profound and subtle understanding of history [and] remind us of the astonishing heritage of this sliver of land... Shehadeh's political and historical analysis is sharp and unsentimental... A really beautiful book
Church Times
Praise for Rajah Shehadeh: In his moral clarity and baring of the heart ... Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi
New York Times
A buoy in a sea of bleakness
- Rachel Kushner,
Palestine's greatest prose writer
Observer
Profoundly personal as well as historically significant ... A quiet and deeply felt book
- Hisham Matar, The New York Times
Praise for Companions in Conflict: 'Insightful, surprising, and moving
- Kamila Shamsie,