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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

byRaja Shehadeh

Raja Shehadeh examines his difficult relationship with his father, Aziz, a Palestinian lawyer and activist who pursued legal and political paths toward coexistence after 1948. Family memory intersects with displacement, occupation, professional ambition, generational conflict, and the struggle for Palestinian rights. Shehadeh revisits arguments and missed opportunities after his father's violent death, asking whether they might have understood one another differently. The memoir is both intimate reckoning and political history, showing how public conflict enters households and how a son can inherit a cause without inheriting his father's temperament or choices.

Publisher

Other Press, LLC

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

160

ISBN

9781635423648