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The book is framed by the author’s background as a Palestinian lawyer and writer, founder of Al-Haq, and by its dedication and reflective epigraph. Contents move through episodic journeys and encounters—from escaping arrest to Nazareth—supported by an accompanying undated pre-1916 regional map.","A RIFT IN TIME  \nraja shehadeh is the author of the highly praised memoir Strangers in the House, and the enormously acclaimed When the Bulbul Stopped Singing, which was made into a stage play. He is a Palestinian lawyer and writer who lives in Ramallah. He is the founder of the pioneering, non-partisan human rights organisation Al-Haq, an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists, and the author of several books about international law, human rights and the Middle East. His most recent book, Palestinian Walks won the Orwell Prize in 2008.  \nalso by raja shehadeh  \nWhen the Bulbul Stopped Singing Strangers in the House Palestinian Walks  \nA RIFT IN TIME  \nTravels with My Ottoman Uncle  \nRAJA SHE HAD EH  \n© 2011 Raja Shehadeh Published by OR Books, New York.  \n(First Published by Profile Books, London, 2010) .  \nVisit our website [at ](at www.orbooks.com)[www.orbooks.com](at www.orbooks.com)[ ](at www.orbooks.com)First printing 2011.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage retrival system, without permission in writing from the publisher, except brief passages for review purposes.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data: A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress  \nISBN 978-1-935928-28-7  \nISBN 978-1-935928-29-4  \nTo Widad, my mother, a story teller, who fell silent before she could find out the end of the story  \n‘Human beings are capable of the unique trick, creating realities by first imagining them, by experiencing them in their minds. The active imagining somehow makes it real. And what is possible in the art becomes thinkable in life.’  \nBrian Eno  \nContents  \nMap ix  \n1: Escaping Arrest 1  \n2: The View from Mount Arbel 31  \n3: Along the River Jordan 46  \n4: The Silence of the Land 69  \n5: One of the Last Survivors of Ottoman Times 84  \n6: Hur Hur, Hau Hau 114  \n7: A’ynAnoub 160  \n8: The Arrest 194  \n9: Welcome to Nazareth 223  \nAcknowledgements 233  \nList of Illustrations 236  \nAn undated, pre-1916 physical map of northern Palestine and neighbouring regions showing some of the towns, villages and areas mentioned in the text. 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