When The Bulbul Stopped Singing A Diary of Ramallah under Siege
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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.Praise for Raja Shehadeh: Shehadeh writes with great clarity and simplicity, but no bitterness, more in sorrow than in anger about the unhappy history of his family and country
Independent
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,
Luminously clear-sighted ... By turns lyrical, witty and shrewd, Shehadeh is an excellent companion
Prospect