Praise for Raja Shehadeh: "Palestine's greatest prose writer."
–The Observer "Unusually honest . . . Few Palestinians have opened their minds and hearts with such frankness."
–The New York Times Book Review "Brings an eloquent, understated voice to an often contentious chorus and should help in opening dialogue between Christians, Jews, and Muslims about the future of our holy lands."
–Booklist "Shehadeh's voice is a rare one in the turmoil of Palestine: angry yet dispassionate, committed yet free."
–Michael Ignatieff "Explains better than a hundred political treatises why there is still no peace in the Middle East."
–Amos Elon "Shehadeh is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy, and wise."
–Colm Tóibín "Raja Shehadeh is a buoy in a sea of bleakness."
–Rachel Kushner