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Raja Shehadeh

Raja Shehadeh is a Founder of the human rights group Al Haq, an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists. His latest book, Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation, was published in 2019; his next, We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I, will be published in 2022. (December 2021)

What Does Israel Fear from This ‘Terrorist’?

The Israeli government smears human rights organizations—like Al Haq, the one I founded—rather than attempting to end the violations they bring to light.

December 2, 2021 issue

In His Father’s Footsteps

“So I continued to visit Jaffa, but I had to rely more on my imagination because the reality was of an entirely different place from what he had described.”

October 16, 2021

Jaffa Revisited

The lost world of my parents’ life in the city once known as “the bride of the sea” mirrors the dispossession that has been story of Palestine from 1948 to this day.

October 1, 2021

Israeli soldiers detaining a Palestinian during clashes at a protest, Hebron, West Bank, February 2018

Bearing Witness in the West Bank

Freedom and Despair: Notes from the South Hebron Hills

by David Shulman

March 7, 2019 issue

Nabi Musa, West Bank, January 19, 2010; photograph by Stephen Shore from the exhibition Stephen Shore, on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, through May 28, 2018. The catalog is by Quentin Bajac, with contributions by David Campany, Kristen Gaylord, and Martino Stierli. It is published by MoMA.

This Land Is Our Land

Over the past two decades, most of the land used for Jewish settlements in the West Bank has been acquired on the grounds that it belongs to the state.

Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror

by Gary Fields

January 18, 2018 issue

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