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SEEKING
PALESTINE:
NEW PALESTINIAN WRITING ON EXILE AND HOME
Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson (Eds.)
Rs 395 Hb 2012
81-88965-73-1
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How do Palestinians live,
imagine and reflect on home and exile in this period of a
stateless and transitory Palestine, a deeply contested
and crisis-ridden national project, and a sharp
escalation in Israeli state violence and Palestinian
oppression? How can exile and home be written? A reading of
the period suggests a reconfiguration of home and exile,
new forms of exile, including internal exile, and a
turn towards origins, as young Palestinians look back to
1948 and how it all began.
This volume of new writing will ask 22
innovative and outstanding Palestinian writers—essayists,
poets, novelists, critics, and memorists—to
address questions, experiences, reflections and polemics on
exile and home (,after Palestine) in its multiple senses,
whether after post-Oslo Palestine, after the loss of historic
Palestine or indeed simply looking after or seeking Palestine.
They will be writing from diverse locations in their past and
present, whether the West Bank and Gaza, the Galilee,
Lebanon, Jordan, the United States and elsewhere.
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RAJA
SHEHADEH
Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian lawyer and writer who lives
in Ramallah. He is a founder of the pioneering human rights
organisation Al-Haq, an affiliate of the International
Commission of Jurists. He has written several books on
international law, human rights and the Middle East.
Strangers in the House
was described by
The Economist
as ‘distinctive and truly
impressive’ In 2008, he won the Orwell Prize,
Britain's pre-eminent award for political writing,
for his book Palestinian
Walks. Forays into a Vanishing Landscape.
Other published works include
When the Bulbul Stopped Singing
and
A Rift In Time: Travels With My Ottoman Uncle.
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PENNY
JOHNSON
Penny Johnson is an
independent researcher who works closely with the Institute
of Women's Studies at Birzeit University, where she
edits the Review of Women's Studies. Recent writing
and research on Palestine has focused on weddings and wars,
wives of political prisoners, and young Palestinians’
talk about proper and improper marriages. She is an
Associate Editor of the
Jerusalem Quarterly.
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