Synopsis:

Palestinian human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh started hill walking around Ramallah in the 1970s. His book records seven walks over twenty seven years, and through them a Palestinian people and their vanishing landscape eroded by the Israeli occupation.

Interview/feature by Abby Aguirre in the New York Times, as she goes walking with Shehadeh.

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Author: Raja Shehadeh

Publisher: Profile Books

ISBN: 978-1-86197-899-8.

Awards: Orwell Prize 2008

Video: Shehadeh's acceptance speech at the Orwell Prize

Original Language: English

Translated by: Please give details of the translator here.

Genre: Memoir/Essays/Reportage