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Raja Shehadeh is Palestine's leading writer. He is also a lawyer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq. Shehadeh was a National Book Award finalist in 2023 and is the author of several acclaimed books published by Profile, including the Orwell Prize-winning Palestinian Walks. He lives in Ramallah.An attempt to understand Israeli actions in Gaza, and a lament that the Palestinian story is still not properly heard ... [Shehadeh's] searching analysis offers insights for readers coming new to the situation and others who wish to face it afresh
- 'Book of the Day', Guardian
A slim, powerful work ... details the devastating consequences of the siege [of Gaza]
New Statesman
Measured, lawyerly but always very readable... As the book comes to a close, as if summoning a last reserve of strength, [Shehadeh] manages a message of hope. Perhaps, he writes, the utter nightmarishness of the past few months may achieve what decades of war and negotiation have failed to resolve: a lasting peace
Observer
Elegantly written ... suffused with anger without descending into bitterness
Irish Times
An exceptionally lucid account of the underlying causes of the war in Gaza ... [Shehadeh] writes with so much humanity, recounting the story with neither rancour nor despair. This book will be particularly valuable for political education. Highly recommended all round.
Morning Star
Praise for Raja Shehadeh: In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, his self-questioning and insistence on focusing on the experience of the individual within the storms of nationalist myth and hubris, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi
New York Times
A buoy in a sea of bleakness
- Rachel Kushner,
Shehadeh is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy and wise
- Colm Tóibín,
Palestine's greatest prose writer
Observer
Luminously clear-sighted ... By turns lyrical, witty and shrewd, Shehadeh is an excellent companion
Prospect