Bøger af Raja Shehadeh

When the author first started hill walking in Palestine, in the late 1970s, he was not aware that he was travelling through a vanishing landscape. Recording how the land felt and looked before various calamities, this title attempts to preserve, at least in words, the Palestinian natural treasures that many Palestinians never know.

Tre år før Raja Shehadeh blev født i Ramallah i 1951, var hans familie blevet fordrevet fra Jaffa. Hele hans barndom blev stærkt præget af familiens sorg over alt det, den havde mistet, symboliseret i de funklende lys på den anden side af bakkerne i vest.Raja var vidne til flere anholdelser af hans far, Aziz. Faren var advokat og politiker og var i slutningen af 1960’erne den første palæstinenser, der arbejdede for en to-statsløsning i Palæstina. Han forudsagde, at hvis der ikke blev sluttet fred, ville hjemlandet blive taget fra palæstinenserne, bid for bid. Bitter og desillusioneret over, at hverken palæstinensere eller israelere ville lytte til hans profetiske vision, trak han sig ud af politik. Han blev myrdet i 1985."Som fremmede" er en gribende skildring af dagliglivet på Vestbredden. Men mest af alt er det beretningen om det vanskelige forhold mellem en politisk aktiv far og en idealistisk søn, yderligere kompliceret af den ydmygelse det er at skulle vokse op og finde sin identitet i et land, der er besat.Raja Shehadeh er palæstinensisk advokat og forfatter, bosat i Ramallah. Han er grundlægger af organisationen Al-Haq, der arbejder for at forsvare menneskerettighederne i de besatte palæstinensiske områder. Al-Haq dokumenterer brud på palæstinensernes individuelle og kollektive rettigheder. Han har udgivet flere bøger om international ret, menneskerettigheder og om livet i Palæstina, bl.a. "When the Bulbul Stopped Singing" (2003) og "Palestinian Walks" (2007). Sidstnævnte har han modtaget den britiske Orwell-prisen for.

Since the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, the Nakba (or 'disaster' as the Palestinians call it), there have been many opportunities to move towards peace and equality between Palestine and Israel - after the Six-Day War in 1967, the Oslo Agreement and even the 7 October 2023 War. Each opportunity has been rejected by Israel, which is why life is unbearable in the West Bank now and there is genocide in Gaza. This book explores what went wrong again and again, and why. And how it could still be different. It is human nature to feel prejudice. But in this haunting meditation on Palestine and Israel, Shehadeh suggests that this does not mean the two nations cannot live together to their mutual benefit and co-existence. In graceful, devastatingly observed prose, this is a fresh reflection on the conflict in a time of great need.

Femogtyve år. Syv vandreture. Et Palæstina der er ved at forsvinde.Raja Shehadeh vokser op i den oldgamle havneby Jaffa i det daværende Palæstina, i dag en forstad til Tel Aviv i Israel. I 1948 bliver familien fordrevet i forbindelse med Israels oprettelse og slår sig ned i Ramallah på den besatte Vestbred. Raja bliver advokat med en mission, nemlig at stoppe de ulovlige israelske bosættelser på Vestbredden ad rettens vej. Forgæves. Satellitbyerne breder sig ufortrødent trods international fordømmelse. I turbulente tider finder han sjælero ved at vandre i det grønne landskab omkring sin hjemby. I 1978 vrimler bakkerne med fortidsminder, kilderne springer om foråret, og Shehadeh kan vandre frit blandt hyrder og beduiner uden skelen til grænser eller politiske forhold. Shehadehs bevægelsesfrihed begrænses år for år, og under hans vandretur 25 år senere er de frodige højdedrag forvandlet til en gold, asfalteret forpost for israelske bosættere. Til sidst lever han som en fange i sit eget land. Vandringer i Palæstina – Erindringer fra et forsvindende landskab er et litterært kampskrift med værdigheden og medmenneskeligheden som våben, men lige såvel en melankolsk hyldest til et landskab, der er ved at forsvinde, ja, knap eksisterer længere.

Forgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine - now Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories - and what they might tell us about the land and the people who have lived (and are living) on our small slip of earth between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.From ancient city ruins to the Nabi 'Ukkasha mosque and tomb, acclaimed writers and researchers Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson ask: what has been memorialised, and what lies unseen, abandoned or erased - and why? Whether standing on a high cliff overlooking Lebanon or the lowest land-based elevation on earth at the Dead Sea, they explore lost connections in a fragmented land.In elegiac, elegant prose, Shehadeh and Johnson grapple not only with questions of Israeli resistance to acknowledging the Nakba - the 1948 catastrophe for Palestinians - but also with the complicated history of Palestinian commemoration in our own time.

This exquisitely written book records a sensitive Palestinian writer's love for the landscape of his country. It reflects not only the intense beauty of that landscape, but also some of the terrible dangers that threaten it and its occupants--Rashid Khalidi, author "The Iron Cage."

From the Orwell Prize winning author of Palestinian Walks, a moving portrait of Palestine's Ramallah.

Life in Palestine today - what it is really like - day to day, from the Orwell Prize winning author, Raja Shehadeh.

Raja Shehadeh was born into a successful Palestinian family. When the state of Israel was formed in 1948 the family were driven out to the provincial town of Ramallah. In 1985 his father was stabbed to death. This book recounts his troubled and complex relationship with his father and his experience of exile - of being a stranger in his own land.