Shehadeh: Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape

Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape, by Raja Shehadeh. New York: Scribner, 2008 (originally published by Profile Books, Great Britain, 2007). xxii + 200 pages. $15.00 paper. JSTOR

Gregory Orfalea teaches Arab American literature at Georgetown University. He is the author of Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family, Place, and Politics, to appear in spring 2009 from the University of Arizona Press. A collection of his short stories, The Man Who Guarded the Bomb, is also forthcoming.