Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine by Raja Shehadeh

From Steerforth Press Discover the Classic Coming-of-Age Memoir that Captures the Palestinian Experience for Members of every Generation since the 1948 Nakba "Unusually honest, beautifully written." -- New York Times Book Review ** With a New Afterword by the Author ** In this new edition of his groundbreaking memoir, Palestinian lawyer and human rights activist Raja Shehadeh offers a moving description of the daily lives of those who have been determined to remain on Palestinian land under Israeli occupation and refusing to relent in the face of efforts to drive them out by making their lives unbearable. Growing up "in the shadow of home" in the rural hills of the West Bank, he was introduced early to political conflict. He witnessed the numerous arrests of his father, Aziz Shehadeh, who, in 1967, was the first Palestinian to advocate a peaceful, 2-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He predicted that if peace were not acheived, what remained of the Palestinian homela