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Raja Shehadeh Sends Decades of West Bank Archives to Edinburgh

By Drooid · Sep 14, 2026, 8:12 AM UTC · How we work

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Raja Shehadeh sent his decades-long West Bank archives to the University of Edinburgh.
After the 2023 Gaza war, he digitized diaries and mailed photographed pages to Scotland.
The collection now resides at Edinburgh, while Exeter has posted thousands of pages online.
He kept a diary for nearly 60 years, recording events like the April 2, 2002 Ramallah tank raid.
Police files in the archive support his claim that authorities ignored the suspect in his father's death.

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Story summary

Raja Shehadeh sent his decades-long West Bank archives to the University of Edinburgh.
After the 2023 Gaza war, he digitized diaries and mailed photographed pages to Scotland.
The collection now resides at Edinburgh, while Exeter has posted thousands of pages online.
He kept a diary for nearly 60 years, recording events like the April 2, 2002 Ramallah tank raid.
Police files in the archive support his claim that authorities ignored the suspect in his father's death.