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 live 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
at 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 today .
