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Forgotten
Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials
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Forgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine—now Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories—and what they might tell us about the land and the people who live on our small slip of earth between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan...
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See moreAn elegy to memory: what is memorialised, what is not, and why
From two leading writers and thinkers on Palestine: a profound meditation on memory and what we choose to memorialise
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Forgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine—now Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories—and what they might tell us about the land and the people who live on our small slip of earth between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
From ancient city ruins to the Nabi 'Ukkasha mosque and tomb, acclaimed writers and researchers Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson ask: what has been memorialised, and what lies unseen, abandoned or erased—and why? Whether standing on a high cliff overlooking Lebanon or at the lowest land-based elevation on earth at the Dead Sea, they explore lost connections in a fragmented land.
In elegiac, elegant prose, Shehadeh and Johnson grapple not only with questions of Israeli resistance to acknowledging the Nakba—the 1948 catastrophe for Palestinians—but also with the complicated history of Palestinian commemoration today.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781805222415
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 06 March 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Edition: Main
Illustration: 10-20 black and white photographs
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 136.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 304g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Raja Shehadeh is Palestine's leading writer. A lawyer and human rights activist, he is the author of the Orwell-Prize winning Palestinian Walks. Penny Johnson is a founding member of the Institute of Women's Studies at Birzeit University, a Contributing Editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly and author of Companions in Conflict.
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