The award-winning Palestinian writer and lawyer, Raja Shehadeh has told BBC HARDtalk that he hopes his books will help a little bit to further the cause of peace.

"I don't want to flatter myself, but every little bit counts," said Mr Shehadeh, adding that when you read a book “you engage with the writing, you are moved emotionally.”

Mr Shehadeh has written several books about human rights and Israeli occupation.

His family were forced to leave Jaffa in 1948 and settled in Ramallah on the West Bank, where he lives today.