Awards

• Commended for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2023

Overview

A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee. He was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this searingly personal memoir, Raja Shehadeh unpicks the snags and complexities of their relationship. A vocal and fearless opponent, Aziz resists under the British mandatory period, then under Jordan, and, finally, under Israel. As a young man, Raja fails to recognize his father's courage, and in turn, his father does not appreciate Raja's own efforts in campaigning for Palestinian human rights. When Aziz is murdered in 1985, it changes Raja irrevocably. This is not only the story of the battle against the various oppressors of the Palestinians but also a moving portrait of a particular father and son relationship

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[A] highly readable memoir...impressively comprehensive. -- The Observer (London) A clear-eyed, critical, and wise examination of a defining tragedy of the twentieth century--the colonization of Palestine--as refracted through the lens of the fraught relationship between two of Palestine's leading lawyers, who happen to be father and son. -- Saeed Teebi, author of Her First Palestinian Absolutely gripping...His masterly, remorseless selection and accumulation of detail builds an unanswerable case against Palestine's historic and current oppressors. -- The Guardian (London) This personal and gripping memoir...is partly the conversation that Raja Shehadeh wishes he could have had with his murdered father. -- Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

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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 organization Al-Haq. Shehadeh is the author of several acclaimed books including Strangers in the House, Occupation Diaries, and Palestinian Walks, which won the prestigious Orwell Prize. In 2022 he was named an International Writer of the Royal Society of Literature. Peter Ganim is an American actor of stage, television and film. And he does voiceovers. A lot of them. He began in front of the microphone in 1994, with corporate and incentive travel narration. In 2005, he hung out the shingle at PGVS, focusing on commercials for radio and television as well as audiobooks. He is accredited and certified by a number of organizations with cool acronyms, like AFTRA, SAG, the APA and SaVoa.

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