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by Raja Shehadeh (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Profile Books (22 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1861978995
  • ISBN-13: 978-1861978998
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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"'Shehadeh does a tremendous job... one of the most compelling things you will read this summer.' Scotland on Sunday 'He distils his pain and anger into eloquent prose, meticulously counting the ways he loves the land...Palestinian Walks is no trite exercise in myth-making or propaganda.' Sunday Tribune (Ireland) 'Continually grapples with misconceptions...Shehadeh is always engaging...delivering what many activists neglect to mention: the odd, slightly absurd details that really touch people; things that appear off camera, away from news reports.' Independent on Sunday"

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`Intensely political while avoiding the excesses of pure polemic, Shehadeh's account of six different Palestinian walks continually grapples with misconceptions and misinformation...Shehadeh is always engaging. There's such an eccentricity to his approach, commenting on dinosaur footprints in the rock one moment, challenging Israeli law the next... it's a remarkable way of going about things, delivering what many activists neglect to mention: the odd, slightly absurd details that really touch people; things that appear off-camera, away from news reports - things that seem real.'

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5.0 out of 5 stars Poignant, Lyrical, Elevating, 12 Nov 2008
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Winner of the Orwell Prize 2008. Raja Shehadeh's twenty seven years going on sarha's, wandering the hills of Ramallah and beyond, form the warp and the weft of a life rich with observations. The purpose of a sarha is to wander freely and aimlessly, to nourish the soul and rejuvenate. Each walk combines poignant, lyrical, reflections of a vanishing landscape with an ancient history. Along with that, eloquent stories of the people who cultivated the land with terraces of olive trees and grapevines. Poetic, political, and spiritual, this second edition has seven unique walks, each one embracing real people, past and present.

The hills are alive with the music of shepherds and their flocks, vibrant spring flowers, arid sunburnt wadis, transforming light, winter rain and snow, and Jewish settlers who claim a divine right to the land. One of the most captivating stories in the book is that of Abu Ameen, a poor stone mason. For all its poignancy, this is also an elevating story of human endurance, tested to extremes, in the harshness of a land with many restrictions.

Raja Shehadeh is a lawyer and writer living in Ramallah, a city in the Palestinian West Bank. He is also the author of the highly praised When the Bulbul Stopped Singing and Strangers in the House.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Palestinian Walks, 6 Mar 2009
An excellent well written book which gives a new insight in to the Palestinian way of life and hardships over the last sixty years. It shows how Israel completely ignored the Palestinian rights and land ownwership in the West Bank. The author who is a lawyer explains how biased the courts were towards Israel and the Palestinian cause was swept under the carpet.
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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Psychogeography of a Peoples, 2 Sep 2008
This is a scarey book. Why read horrors books, the realities are truly fearful. Israel has become a mirror image of its own worst nightmare through its treatment of the Palestinians.This is worse than apartheid. Ps beautifully written book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A moving and fascinating book
I felt when reading this book I had walked on the hills so beloved by the author. I was lucky enough to hear him read extracts at the Edinburgh Book Festival and warmed at once... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Great Fiction.
If you're into fiction this a great read if you want facts on the ground look elsewhere.
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