" Shehadeh's books are like beacons held up against the darkness" Observer "A heartbreaking
hopeful look at how Palestinian culture endures" Irish Times 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 .
