Birth: NULL/NULL/1951 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Ramallah in 1951; attended the Quaker School in Ramallah; studied Literature and Philosophy at the AUB; received legal training in Britain, then returned to Ramallah and the private practice of his father Aziz Shehadeh; established a private legal firm in 1978; co-founded Al-Haq (Law in the Service of Man) in 1979 directing it until 1991; was major figure on issues dealing with the Israeli occupation violations of international law; member in the International Advisory Council of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights and the Human Rights Advisory Group of the World Council of Churches; author of several books, incl. The Third Way: A Journal of Life in the West Bank (Quartet Books, 1982), Occupier’s Law (IPS, 1988), The Law of the Land: Settlements and Land Issues Under Israeli Military Occupation (PASSIA, 1993), Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine (Steerforth Press, 2002), and When the Birds Stopped Singing – Life in Ramallah Under Siege (Steerforth Press, 2002).
