Forgotten

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 have lived (and are living) 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 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 in our own time .

Préface
From two leading writers and thinkers on Palestine: a profound meditation on memory and what we choose to memorialise

Auteur

Raja Shehadeh is Palestine's leading writer. A lawyer and human rights activist, he is the author of the Orwell Prize-winning Palestinian Walks.

Penny Johnson is a founding member of the Institute of Women's Studies at Birzeit University, a Contributing Editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly and author of Companions in Conflict.