EAN: 9781788169981

WE COULD HAVE BEEN FRIENDS MY FATHER AND I - RA...

A FINALIST FOR THE US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2023 FOR NONFICTION    'Profoundly personal as well
as historically significant ... In his moral clarity and baring of the heart  Shehadeh recalls
writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi' Hisham Matar  New York Times   Aziz Shehadeh
was many things: lawyer  activist  and political detainee  he was also the father of
bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and 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 recognise 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 a moving portrait of a particular
father and son relationship.

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