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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir BOTY_2025 without the usual defenses thatFinalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize An NPR Best Book of the Year A subtle psychological portrait of the authors relationship with his father during the twentieth century battle for Palestinian human rights. Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly personal memoir, Raja Shehadeh unpicks the snags