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Ramallah in Podcasts

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A Palestinian city in the West Bank, where Raja Shehadeh has lived.

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The Daily
'The Interview': Raja Shehadeh Believes Israelis and Palestinians Can Still Find Peace

In, I think, November 2023, you wrote a piece for the New York Review of Books in which you described having two plumbers come to your home in Ramallah.

The Daily
'The Interview': Raja Shehadeh Believes Israelis and Palestinians Can Still Find Peace

And so many Palestinians have never been to Jerusalem from Ramallah, which is 15 kilometers away, and never met an Israeli, normal Israeli civilian.

The Daily
'The Interview': Raja Shehadeh Believes Israelis and Palestinians Can Still Find Peace

And there were times when Israelis came over to Ramallah and to other places in West Bank and to Gaza, actually, and went to restaurants and had businesses with the Palestinians.

The Daily
'The Interview': Raja Shehadeh Believes Israelis and Palestinians Can Still Find Peace

And so I had a sense of Ramallah was not the real home.

The Daily
'The Interview': Raja Shehadeh Believes Israelis and Palestinians Can Still Find Peace

Well, I grew up in Ramallah with an exiled family.

The Daily
'The Interview': Raja Shehadeh Believes Israelis and Palestinians Can Still Find Peace

So they left on the 28th of April to Ramallah, and they were never able to return.

The Daily
'The Interview': Raja Shehadeh Believes Israelis and Palestinians Can Still Find Peace

Can you tell me about how your family ended up in Ramallah in the West Bank?