Forgotten - Searching for Palestine's Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

" 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 .

Product details

• Authors: Penny Johnson, Raja Shehadeh, Shehadeh Raja
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 05.02.2026
• EAN: 9781805222422
• ISBN: 978-1-80522-242-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Social Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Historical Geography, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Material Culture, Middle Eastern history, Palestine, Archaeology by period / region, Human Geography, Historical Geography, Archaeological sites