Raja Shehadeh

is a lawyer and writer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq. Shehadeh is the author of several acclaimed books published by Profile Books including the Orwell Prize-winning Palestinian Walks, as well as Strangers in the House; Occupation Diaries; Language of War, Language of Peace; A Rift in Time; Where the Line is Drawn and Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation. His most recent books are We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir, and (with Penny Johnson) Forgotten Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials. He lives in Ramallah, Palestine.

How Can Palestinians and Israelis Live Together?

How Can Palestinians and Israelis Live Together?

Raja Shehadeh offers a simple but impossible answer to this simple but impossible question: "And yet we must."

30 JANUARY 2026 • By Raja Shehadeh
TMR CONVERSATIONS: Amal Ghandour Interviews Raja Shehadeh

TMR CONVERSATIONS: Amal Ghandour Interviews Raja Shehadeh

Amal Ghandour, of This Arab Life, interviews Palestinian author and lawyer Raja Shehadeh on his new book, a...

11 MAY 2023 • By Amal Ghandour, Raja Shehadeh
The Diplomats’ Quarter: Wasta of the Palestinian Authority

The Diplomats’ Quarter: Wasta of the Palestinian Authority

Author and attorney Raja Shehadeh recounts the legend of Ramallah's ritzy neighborhood, designed for heroes of the Palestinian...

14 JUNE 2021 • By Raja Shehadeh
The Road to Jerusalem, Then and Now

The Road to Jerusalem, Then and Now

Palestinian attorney and a founder of the human rights organization Al-Haq, Raja Shehadeh takes us on a journey...

15 NOVEMBER 2020 • By Raja Shehadeh
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