Tuesday 11 September at 7.00 p.m.

Palestinian writer and lawyer Raja Shehadeh, founder of the pioneering human rights organisation Al-Haq, lives in Ramallah, where what most of us take for granted has to be carefully thought about and planned for: When will the post be allowed to get through? Will there be enough water for the bath tonight? In his new book Occupation Diaries (Profile) he continues the clear-eyed, gentle but resolute accounts of daily life in the West Bank he has brought us in books including When the Bulbul Stopped Singing, Strangers in the House, and Palestinian Walks (for which he won the 2008 Orwell Prize), and asks the big questions too. He will be in conversation with Ilan Pappé, Professor of History at the University of Exeter and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Forgotten Palestinians, and The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, among other books.