Strangers in the House is Raja Shehadeh's memoir of his relationship with his father, set against thirty years of living under Israeli military occupation in Ramallah. Shehadeh, a Palestinian lawyer and founder of the human rights organization Al-Haq, explores the tension between his father's generation—which sought accommodation with Israel and believed in legal processes—and younger Palestinians who turned to armed resistance. The memoir takes its title from a 1967 law allowing Israeli authorities to seize homes abandoned during the war, making the house a central symbol of Palestinian displacement and precarious tenure. Shehadeh traces his father's efforts to work within the legal system, culminating in his assassination by unknown parties when Shehadeh was in his thirties. The personal drama unfolds against the transformation of the West Bank: the spread of settlements, the tightening of military control, and the erosion of space for the moderate politics his father represented. For readers seeking Palestinian perspectives on the occupation beyond headlines and statistics, Shehadeh offers intimate insight into how political conditions shape family relations, personal choices, and the possibilities for life under military rule.