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Raja Shehadeh looks at folders from his archive in 2026.
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The secret quest to preserve Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh's diaries
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Leading Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh has documented Israel's occupation of the West Bank since day one. Fearing the occupation might consume his archive, he secretly moved it to Scotland
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