Tuesday, February 18, 8:00 p.m. Eastern - Zoom
Book Group: Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadah
At our next book group we will discuss Raja Shehadah's Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (winner of the 2008 Orwell Prize)
Human rights lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh has lived in Ramallah on the West Bank since his family fled Jaffa in 1948. A peace activist of independent temper, he has seen at first hand the horrors of occupation. For many years he has found comfort in walking, following an Arab custom of roaming freely, at will, wherever the spirit takes you. In this book, we accompany Raja Shehadeh on six walks taken in the West Bank between 1978 and 2006.
When he first began walking in Palestine, he was not aware that he was traveling through a vanishing landscape. Subsequently, his hikes became less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because the landscape he traverses is now the site of a tense standoff between Palestinians and Israeli settlers.