Book Review
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: Palestinian memoir charged with compassion and honesty
In this slim but absorbing account, Raja Shehadeh uses his relationship with his late father Aziz as a prism through which to view the wider Palestinian-Israeli conflict
The soldiers arrived for Aziz Shehadeh before dawn. Using iron chains, they shackled his right foot to his left hand and his left foot to his right hand. Then they threw Aziz into the back of a truck and drove him for hours to a prison in the Jordanian desert. His head was shaved and he was held captive for two months, where he struggled with the intense heat during the day and extreme cold ...
