We Would Have Been Friends: My Father & I

Raja Shehadeh live streamed from palestine

The personal and the political are intertwined in the memoir a Palestinian human rights lawyer writes about his father. This is a son’s story of a distant father forever enraged and galvanised by a litany of injustices - British colonial rule, the Nakba, Jordanian territorial ambitions and the many years of the Occupation. Aziz Shehadeh, an eminent jurist, was exiled, imprisoned and finally murdered by a collaborator. His son, Raja Shehadeh, shares his sorrow, his sense of alienation and his profound loss.

Participants

Gareth Evans, now Chancellor of the Australian National University, was a member of the Australian Parliament for 21 years, and a cabinet minister throughout the Hawke–Keating era, serving as Foreign Minister from 1988-96. He led the Brussels-based International Crisis Group from 2000-09 and has won many prizes and awards for his contributions to international policymaking. He has written or edited, solely or jointly, twelve books, most recently Good International Citizenship: The Case for Decency.

Raja Shehadeh is a lawyer, a writer and the founder of pioneering Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq. Shehadeh is the author of several acclaimed books, including the Orwell Prize-winning Palestinian Walks, Strangers in the House; Occupation Diaries; Language of War, Language of Peace; A Rift in Time; Where the Line is Drawn and Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation. His most recent book is We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I. In 2022, he was chosen as an international writer of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Ramallah, Palestine.

We Would Have Been Friends: My Father & I

Event actions

We Would Have Been Friends: My Father & I details

We Would Have Been Friends: My Father & I pictures

Featured events

Event actions

We Would Have Been Friends: My Father & I description

Event additional information

Participants