'Forgotten': A journey through Palestine's lost history and erased identity

Two West Asian commentators take a walk through remote parts of historic Palestine, and every discovery they make is a story of loss, erasure, and a denial of identity

FORGOTTEN: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

Author: Raja Shehadeh & Penny Johnson

Publisher: Profile Books

Pages: 228

Price: Rs 699

  Amidst the present-day death and destruction in West Asia, the distinguished commentators on Palestinian history and politics, Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson, describe in Forgotten the walking tours they had undertaken between 2021 and 2023 to remote parts of historic Palestine. They had then removed rubble and foliage in obscure places to trace Palestinian lives which, from 1948, have been extinguished by war and replaced by new inhabitants and settlements that deny the earlier pervasive presence of Palestinians on these