Forgotten (Hardback)

Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson

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

"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.

Publication date: 06/03/2025

£14.99

ISBN: 9781805222415

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Arts, Language & Literature, Current Affairs, History & Classics, Politics & Economics

Forgotten (Ebook)

Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson

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

"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.

Publication date: 06/03/2025

£13.99

ISBN: 9781805222439

ISBN 10 / ASIN: B0CPQSL276

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Arts, Language & Literature, Current Affairs, History & Classics, Politics & Economics

Forgotten (Audiobook)

Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson

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

"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.

Publication date: 06/03/2025

£24.99

ISBN: 9781805224891

ISBN 10 / ASIN: B0DJC4KCLK

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Arts, Language & Literature, Current Affairs, History & Classics, Politics & Economics

Read by: Nadia Albina

Forgotten (Paperback)

Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson

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

"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.

Publication date: 05/02/2026

£10.99

ISBN: 9781805222422

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Arts, Language & Literature, Current Affairs, History & Classics, Politics & Economics

Reviews for Forgotten

'Shehadeh is engaged, forensic, alert to history's weight but unwilling to let it crush him... Shehadeh's books are like beacons held up against the darkness of Israeli oppression. Forgotten is perhaps the brightest light of all'

 Observer

'A heartbreaking, hopeful look at how Palestinian culture endures in spite of the occupation'

 Irish Times

'Slim but profound'

 New Statesman

'An inspiring account... insightful'

 Georgraphical

'This precious jewel of a book is a call to preserve the past in order to secure the future. Its hauntingly evocative prose stays with you long after its final pages have been turned'

 Middle East Eye

'The authors have a profound and subtle understanding of history [and] remind us of the astonishing heritage of this sliver of land... Shehadeh's political and historical analysis is sharp and unsentimental... A really beautiful book'

 Church Times

'Praise for Rajah Shehadeh: In his moral clarity and baring of the heart ... Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi'

 New York Times

'A buoy in a sea of bleakness'

Rachel Kushner 

'Palestine's greatest prose writer'

 Observer

'Profoundly personal as well as historically significant ... A quiet and deeply felt book'

Hisham Matar The New York Times

'Praise for Companions in Conflict: 'Insightful, surprising, and moving'

Kamila Shamsie 

Raja Shehadeh

Raja Shehadeh

Raja Shehadeh is Palestine's leading writer. He is also a lawyer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq. Shehadeh was a National Book Award finalist in 2023 and is the author of several acclaimed books published by Profile, including the Orwell Prize-winning Palestinian Walks. He lives in Ramallah.

Penny Johnson

Penny Johnson

Penny Johnson is an academic at Birzeit University in Ramallah and has published articles and edited a number of important books on Palestine.

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