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Raja Shehadeh

Amal Ghandour’s career spans more than three decades in the fields of research, communication, and community development. She is an author (About This Man Called Ali) and a blogger (Thinking Fits, This Arab Life). Since 2009, she has held the position of Senior Strategy Adviser to Ruwwad al Tanmeyah, a regional community development initiative that spans Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt. Ghandour, who was special adviser to Columbia University’s Global Centers, Amman, from 2014 to 2017, sits on the Women Creating Change Leadership Council of Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference and the Board of Trustees of International College, Lebanon. She has served on the Board of Directors of Ruwwad, Lebanon (2012-2022) and the Arab Human Rights Fund (2011-2014). Ghandour holds an MS in International Policy from Stanford University and a BSFS from Georgetown University. She is the author most recently of This Arab Life, A Generation’s Journey Into Silence, an intimate and honest exploration of a rising Arab generation’s descent into silence. Personal and panoramic, granular and sweeping, the book offers a raw account of the unremitting mire that anticipates the region’s present-day chaos.

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 his most recent book Going Home A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation. He lives in Ramallah, Palestine.

11 May, 2023 • Amal Ghandour, 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 memoir about his father.

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14 June, 2021 • Raja Shehadeh

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 Authority.

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15 November, 2020 • Raja Shehadeh

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 of memory and history, from Ramallah to Jerusalem.

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