Raja Shehadeh is the author of the highly praised memoir, Strangers in the House, and the enormously acclaimed, When the Bulbul Stopped Singing, which was made into a stage play. He is a Palestinian lawyer and writer who lives in Ramallah. He is a founder of the pioneering, non-partisan human rights organization, AI-Haq, an affiliate of the international Commission of Jurists, and the author of several books about international law, human rights and the Middle East.