Forgotten : searching for Palestine's hidden places and lost memorials / Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shehadeh, Raja, 1951- author.

Johnson, Penny (Researcher), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memorials--Palestine.

Memorials.

Arab-Israeli conflict--Destruction and pillage.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Palestine--History--20th century.

Palestine.

Palestine--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

x, 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Profile Books Ltd, 2025.

Summary:

"An elegy to memory: what is memorialised, what is not, and why. 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"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: a small stone on a dusty road

Palestine's pasts, our past and a troubled present

Ottoman times and lost connections

Traces of the Nakba

Intimations of mortality

Ramallah ruins and the future of our past.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1805222414

9781805222415

OCLC:

1412623091