Strangers in the House
Raja Shehadeh was born into a successful Palestinian family with a beautiful house overlooking the Mediterranean. When the state of Israel was formed in 1948 the family were driven out to the provincial town of Ramallah. There Shehadeh grew up in the shadow of his father, a leading civil rights lawyer. He vowed not to become involved in politics or law but inevitably did so and became an important activist himself. In 1985 his father was stabbed to death. The Israeli police failed to investigat…
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Raja Shehadeh was born into a successful Palestinian family with a beautiful house overlooking the Mediterranean. When the state of Israel was formed in 1948 the family were driven out to the provincial town of Ramallah. There Shehadeh grew up in the shadow of his father, a leading civil rights lawyer. He vowed not to become involved in politics or law but inevitably did so and became an important activist himself. In 1985 his father was stabbed to death. The Israeli police failed to investigate the murder properly and Shehadeh, by then a lawyer, set about solving the crime that destroyed his.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Profile Books
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
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- Description:1 online resource (342 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781847654120, 1847654126
- oclc:ocn727648019
- LC Classification:KMM511.S53 A37 2010
- Dewey Decimal:956.95300492740092
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