Raja Shehadeh is a lawyer and writer. His books include the highly praised Strangers in the House (2002); When the Bulbul Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under Siege (2003) Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (2007), for which he won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and A Rift in Time, Travels with my Ottoman Uncle (2010). Shehadeh, who lives in Ramallah, is a founder of the pioneering human rights organization Al Haq, an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists. His most recent book is Occupation Diaries, which is on the Long List for the Orwell Prize, 2013.