
Forgotten
Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials
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About this book
"Shehadeh's books are like beacons held up against the darkness" Observer
"A heartbreaking, hopeful look at how Palestinian culture endures" Irish Times
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- A Note to Our Readers
- Introduction: A Small Stone on a Dusty Road
- Part One: Palestine’s Pasts, Our Past and A Troubled Present
- Part Two: Ottoman Times and Lost Connections
- Part Three: Traces of the Nakba
- Part Four: Intimations of Mortality
- Part Five: Ramallah Ruins and the Future of Our Past
- Conclusion: The Missing Dead, Our Living World
- Acknowledgements
- Sources
- Permissions