Chair: Gareth Evans

The personal and the political are intertwined in the memoir a Palestinian human rights lawyer writes about his father. This is a son’s story of a distant father forever enraged and galvanised by a litany of injustices - British colonial rule, the Nakba, Jordanian territorial ambitions and the many years of the Occupation. Aziz Shehadeh, an eminent jurist, was exiled, imprisoned and finally murdered by a collaborator. His son, Raja Shehadeh, shares his sorrow, his sense of alienation and his profound loss.

Event details: Tue 07 Mar, 3:45pm on the North Stage