Forgotten

Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

Penny Johnson author Raja Shehadeh author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Profile Books Ltd

Publishing:6th Mar '25

£14.99

This title is due to be published on 6th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Forgotten cover

From two leading writers and thinkers on Palestine: a profound meditation on memory and what we choose to memorialise

An elegy to memory: what is memorialised, what is not, and whyForgotten 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.

Praise for Rajah Shehadeh: In his moral clarity and baring of the heart ... Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi * New York Times *
A buoy in a sea of bleakness -- Rachel Kushner
Palestine's greatest prose writer * Observer *
Profoundly personal as well as historically significant ... A quiet and deeply felt book -- Hisham Matar * The New York Times *
Praise for Companions in Conflict: 'Insightful, surprising, and moving -- Kamila Shamsie

ISBN: 9781805222415

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

240 pages

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