Raja Shehadeh, a lawyer living in the West Bank city of Ramallah, has emerged as one of the leading diarists of modern Palestinian life. This summer he published his latest book, Palestinian Walks (Profile Books), which tells the stories of the hikes he's taken through the West Bank in the past quarter of a century and how drastically that landscape is changing. The Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent Rory McCarthy interviewed him when the book came out in August. Listen to them in conversation at the American Colony Hotel, in east Jerusalem.

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