1. Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian lawyer, human rights activist and writer.
12 Facts About Raja Shehadeh
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Raja Shehadeh co-founded the award-winning Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq in 1979.
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Raja Shehadeh's grandfather, Saleem, was a judge in the courts of Mandate Palestine.
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Raja Shehadeh's family fled from Jaffa to Ramallah in 1948.
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In 1951, Shehadeh was born in Ramallah, West Bank, where he grew up.
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Raja Shehadeh attended Birzeit College for two years before moving to Beirut and studying English literature at the American University of Beirut.
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Raja Shehadeh has been married to writer Penny Johnson, a researcher at the Institute of Women's Studies at Birzeit University in Palestine, since 1988.
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In 1979, Raja Shehadeh co-founded the human rights organization Al-Haq, which is the Palestinian affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists.
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Raja Shehadeh has written several books on international law, human rights and the Middle East.
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Raja Shehadeh played a key role in shaping the delegation's legal approach.
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Raja Shehadeh tells the story of his early life and his relationship with his father in Strangers in the House.
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In 2016, Raja Shehadeh took part in a project, initiated by the "Breaking the Silence" organization, to write an article for a book on the Israeli occupation, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War.