Resultaten voor 'raja shehadeh'
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Che cosa teme Israele dalla Palestina?
Lo Stato di Israele venne formato nel 1948, dando luogo alla Nakba o 'catastrofe': la rimozione della nazione palestinese, causa di fratture che continuano a sfociare in forme tragiche e violente anche oggi. Negli anni che sono seguiti, mentre il muro di Berlino crollava e il Sudafrica aboliva l'apartheid, il governo israeliano ha rifiutato ogni opportunità di riconciliazione con la Palestina. Ma per Raja Shehadeh, avvocato dei diritti umani e uno dei più importanti scrittori palestinesi, ciò non significa che le due nazioni non possano lavorare insieme come partner sulla strada della pace. È di questo punto di vista nuovo che oggi abbiamo davvero bisogno. 'Raja Shehadeh - ci ricorda Rachel Kushner - è un salvagente in un mare di desolazione'.
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Wir hätten Freunde sein können, mein Vater und ich
Aziz Shehadeh war in seinem Leben vieles: engagierter Anwalt, widerständiger Aktivist, einer der ersten und furchtlosesten Verfechter der Zwei-Staaten-Lösung und politischer Gefangener. Und er war der Vater des Bestseller-Autors Raja Shehadeh. In jungen Jahren war Raja noch nicht in der Lage, den großen Mut seines Vaters zu erkennen und dieser wiederum sah sich nicht im Stande die Ambitionen des eigenen Sohnes zu würdigen. Als Aziz 1985 direkt vor seinem Haus ermordet wird, verändert dieses Ereignis das Leben seines Sohnes für immer.In seinem eindringlichen Memoir verarbeitet Raja Shehadeh die komplexe Beziehung zu seinem Vater, die bis dato ungeklärten Umstände von dessen Ermordung und liefert zugleich eine unvoreingenommene Historie der Besatzung Palästinas. Eine berührende literarische Annäherung an einen Mann, der sein Freund hätte sein können, und ein Buch, das sowohl von persönlicher als auch gesellschaftspolitischer Relevanz ist und zu Recht auf der Shortlist für den National Book Award stand.
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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
"A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights. Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly personal memoir, Raja Shehadeh unpicks the snags and complexities of their relationship. A vocal and fearless opponent, Aziz resists under the British mandatory period, then under Jordan, and, finally, under Israel. As a young man, Raja fails to recognize his father's courage and, in turn, his father does not appreciate Raja's own efforts in campaigning for Palestinian human rights. When Aziz is murdered in 1985, it changes Raja irrevocably. This is not only the story of the battle against the various oppressors of the Palestinians, but a moving portrait of a particular father and son relationship"--
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Going Home
In a dazzling mix of reportage, analysis, and memoir, the leading Palestinian writer of our time reflects on aging, failure, the occupation, and the changing face of Ramallah"Few Palestinians have opened their minds and their hearts with such frankness."-The New York Times In Going Home, Raja Shehadeh, the Orwell Prize-winning author of Palestinian Walks, takes us on a series of journeys around his hometown of Ramallah. Set in a single day-the day that happens to be the fiftieth anniversary of Israel's occupation of the West Bank-the book is a powerful and moving record and chronicle of the changing face of his city. Here is a city whose green spaces-gardens and hills crowned with olive trees- have been replaced by tower blocks and concrete lots; where the Israeli occupation has further entrenched itself in every aspect of movement, from the roads that can and cannot be used to the bureaucratic barriers that prevent people leaving the West Bank. Here also is a city that is culturally shifting, where Islam is taking a more prominent role in people's everyday and political lives and in the geography of the city. A penetrating evocation of memory, pain, and place that is lightened by everyday joys such as delightful accounts of shared meals and gardening, Going Home is perhaps Raja Shehadeh's most moving and painfully visceral addition to his series of personal histories of the occupation, confirming Rachel Kushner's judgment that "Shehadeh is a buoy in a sea of bleakness."
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Dove sta il limite. Attraversare i confini della Palestina occupata
Raja Shehadeh da giovane avvocato si era dato da fare per impedire il sequestro delle terre palestinesi e favorire la pace e la giustizia nella regione. È in quel periodo che stringe una forte amicizia con Henry, un ricercatore ebreo canadese. Ma quando la vita giorno dopo giorno diventa sempre più insopportabile nei Territori, è impossibile sfuggire alla politica e al passato. E anche la più forte delle amicizie, sul filo del confine israelo-palestinese, viene messa a dura prova. Shehadeh in questo libro, attraversando lo spazio (da Tel Aviv a Jaffa) e il tempo (dal 1959 al 2013), ci racconta l'evolversi della situazione dei palestinesi nei Territori occupati. Shehadeh esplora gli effetti devastanti dell'occupazione anche negli aspetti più intimi della vita quotidiana. E si domanda se, coloro che oggi si considerano a vicenda i peggiori dei nemici, potranno mai riuscire a costruire un futuro comune insieme.
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Il pallido dio delle colline. Sui sentieri della Palestina che scompare
Quando Raja Shehadeh, avvocato discendente da un'antica famiglia palestinese, ha iniziato le camminate sui sentieri della sua terra, negli anni '70, non sapeva ancora di trovarsi di fronte a un paesaggio che stava per scomparire. Quelle stesse colline che per tutta l'infanzia aveva considerato il suo giardino personale - il luogo dove andare a giocare, a riposare o in cui abbandonarsi a un vagabondaggio ristoratore, seguendo un'antica tradizione locale - quelle stesse colline che per il loro carattere arcaico e apparentemente immobile avrebbero potuto apparire familiari a un contemporaneo di Cristo, stavano infatti per essere invase da una colata di cemento che ne avrebbe alterato per sempre l'aspetto e il significato, devastando un'incomparabile ricchezza naturale e paesaggistica. Le sette camminate nel paesaggio della Palestina che Shehadeh racconta in questo libro si svolgono attraverso gli ultimi trent'anni di storia della regione; ognuna di esse racconta un diverso aspetto del paesaggio della cosiddetta Cisgiordania, e si svolge in un diverso momento della sua drammatica vicenda storica. Passo dopo passo, pagina dopo pagina, il racconto si colora di tinte drammatiche e si popola dei fantasmi sempre più reali dell'emigrazione, della guerra e della colonizzazione selvaggia; il terreno delle lunghe camminate si fa sempre più frammentato da fili spinati, posti di blocco e muri invalicabili, fino all'irrompere sulla scena dell'ombra minacciosa del fondamentalismo.
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Where the Line Is Drawn
"[Shehadeh's] books are maps, painstakingly pieced together, of regions lost to senseless division, to bad choices, and to lies."-The Nation"Remarkable and hopeful . . . a deeply honest and intense memoir."-Gal Beckerman, The New York Times Book ReviewA moving account of one man's border crossings-both literal and figurative-by the award-winning author of Palestinian Walks, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six Day WarIn what has become a classic of Middle Eastern literature, Raja Shehadeh, in Palestinian Walks, wrote of his treks through the hills surrounding Ramallah over a period of three decades under Israel's occupation.In Where the Line Is Drawn, Shehadeh explores how occupation has affected him personally, chronicling the various crossings that he undertook into Israel over a period of forty years to visit friends and family, to enjoy the sea, to argue before the Israeli courts, and to negotiate failed peace agreements.Those forty years also saw him develop a close friendship with Henry, a Canadian Jew who immigrated to Israel at around the same time Shehadeh returned to Palestine from studying in London. While offering an unforgettably poignant exploration of Palestinian-Israeli relationships, Where the Line Is Drawn also provides an anatomy of friendship and an exploration of whether, in the bleakest of circumstances, it is possible for bonds to transcend political divisions.
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Strangers in the House
"This is not a political book," Anthony Lewis asserts in his foreword to this revealing memoir of a father-son relationship set against the backdrop of more than thirty years of life under military occupation. "Yet in a hundred different ways it is political. . . . Shehadeh shatters the stereotype many Americans have of Palestinians." Three years after his family was driven from the city of Jaffa in 1948, Raja Shehadeh was born in Ramallah. His early childhood was marked by his family's sense of loss and impermanence, vividly evoked by the glittering lights "on the other side of the hill." He witnessed the numerous arrests of his father, Aziz, who, in 1967, was the first Palestinian to advocate a peaceful, two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He predicted that if peace were not achieved, what remained of the Palestinian homeland would be taken away bit by bit. Ostracized by his fellow Arabs and disillusioned by the failure of either side to recognize his prophetic vision, Aziz retreated from politics. He was murdered in 1985. The first memoir of its kind by a Palestinian living in the occupied territories, Strangers in the House offers a moving description of daily life for those who have chosen to remain on their land. It is also the family drama of a difficult relationship between an idealistic son and his politically active father, complicated by the arbitrary humiliation of the "occupier's law."
€ 23,00