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, and the author of several books about international law, human rights and the Middle East. Shehadeh is the author of the highly praised Strangers in the House (2002), When the Birds Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under Siege (2003) and Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (2007), published by Profile Books, for which he won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2008.

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