Raja Shehadeh was born in Ramallah in the West Bank in 1951.
He is a writer and lawyer and one of the founders of the pioneering human rights organization Al Haq, the West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists.
He is the author of several books about international law, human rights and the Middle East, including Occupier’s Law, From Occupation to Interim Accords, Strangers in the House, When the Birds Stopped Singing: A Diary of Ramallah under Siege, which was adapted for the theater, and Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape, which won the 2008 Orwell Award.
He lives in Ramallah, in the Israeli occupied West Bank.
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