A review by juliaehill
Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh

adventurous emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

As someone who loves hiking, and has trekked through some of the beautiful land the author described around Ramallah, this book really resonated. Beautifully melancholy but also with a glimmer of hope, it provides a history of the West Bank land grabs since 1948 from a lawyer who tried to preserve Palestinian land rights over several decades. May the current iteration of the struggle bring forward better days in the region, reparations for Palestinians, and equal rights for all