Raja Shehadeh

Raja Shehadeh is the author of Palestinian Walks. An expanded version of his two Edward Said Lectures – the other one was given in New York – will be published next year.

Letter
Adam Shatz repeats an error that Avi Raz makes in his book The Bride and the Dowry regarding the murder of my father, Aziz Shehadeh (LRB, 11 October). ‘Shehadeh was finally murdered,’ Shatz writes, ‘by a Palestinian extremist who seems to have doubled as a collaborator.’ It is true that the murderer was a collaborator, but he had no link to any Palestinian political organisation. As I record...

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