Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials
Ancient buildings are the keepers of secrets: the ghosts and stories of the people who have gone before rest within their walls.
Despite attempts to conceal the past, remnants stubbornly remain, as anyone who has renovated can attest - faded posters, peeling wallpaper, chipped paint - such immutable objects can bear witness to a forgotten time.
In this meditative travelogue, Raja Shehadeh and his wife Penny Johnson, both in their eighth decade, contemplate the hidden history and geography of historic Palestine, now Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.
This is a place where even “archaeology is politicised”.
The couple’s quest is to reveal the lost, neglected and intentionally erased stories that criss-cross and sustain the land.
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