Raja Shehadeh

Charlotta Salmi (University of Birmingham)

Ed. by Anna Bernard, King's College London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 6.1.1: Israeli and Palestinian Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Anna Bernard (King's College London), Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University), Anastasia Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)

Dates

Born 1951
Activity 2002-ongoing

Places

Born in Palestine
Active in Palestine

Activities

Primary

Lawyer/ Barrister/ Solicitor
Prose writer

Other

Revolutionary, Activist

Resources

Shehadeh's Works

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“Between mute submission and blind hate – I choose the third way” (n.p.), Raja Shehadeh writes in his diary titled after the quote,

The Third Way

. Based on a saying by the Treblinka inmates, the statement captures both the method and the motivation behind the Palestinian writer’s work. Drawing on a shared, global cultural heritage, Shehadeh tries to think his way out of the political impasse of his present and develop more humane forms of resistance. The Anglophone author was born in Ramallah in 1951, and has spent most of his life in occupied Palestine. As the first son of Aziz Shehadeh, a famous lawyer and political activist, and Wedad Nassar, who possessed exceptional storytelling abilities – to which many of Shehadeh’s books are dedicated – Shehadeh grew up balancing the…

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Citation: Salmi, Charlotta. "Raja Shehadeh". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 October 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13260, accessed 27 November 2024.]