Palestine Book Award

Literary Award for English language books about Palestine

The Palestine Book Award is an annual literary award[1] presented by Middle East Monitor.[2] The award began in 2012 and aims to honor the best new books in English about any aspect of Palestine.[3][4][5][6]

All Winners

Year Author(s) Title Ref
2023 Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom [7]
2023 Dareen Tatour I Sing From the Window of Exile [8]
2023 Tahrir Hamdi Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity [9]
2023 Nadim Bawalsa Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 [10]
2023 Ibrahim Muhawi, Hussein Barghouthi Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir [11]
2022 Mosab Abu Toha Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza [12]
2022 Saree Makdsi Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial [13]
2022 Ashjan Ajour Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body [14]
2022 Stephen Sheehi, Lara Sheehi Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine [15]
2022 Mohammad Sabaaneh Power born of dreams: my story is palestine [16]
2022 Lynn Welchman Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization [17]
2022 Heba Hayek Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies [18]
2021 Timothy Brennan Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said [19]
2021 Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics [20]
2021 Erik Skare A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east [21]
2021 Sonia Nimr, Marcia Lynx Qualey Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands [22]
2020 Susan Abulhawa Against the Loveless World [23]
2020 Rashid Khalidi The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 [24]
2020 Nathalie Handal Life in a Country Album [25]
2020 Kamal Boullata, Dr. Finbarr Barry Flood There Where You Are Not [26]
2019 Isabella Hammad The Parisian [27]
2019 Noura Erakat Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine [28]
2019 Andrew Ross Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel [29]
2019 Nabil Anani Palestine, Land and People [30]
2019 Ghassan Zaqtan Where the Bird Disappeared [31]
2018 Reja-e Busailah In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood [32]
2018 Colin Anderson Balfour in the Dock: J.M.N. Jeffries & the Case for the Prosecution [33]
2018 Maha Nassar Brothers Apart: Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Arab world [34]
2018 Salim Tamari The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine [35]
2017 Ella Shohat On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements [36]
2017 Bjorn Brenner Gaza under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance [37]
2017 Laila Parsons The Commander: Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 [38]
2017 Samia Halaby Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre [39]
2017 Ilan Pappe The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories [40]
2016 Anaheed Al-Hardan Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities [41]
2016 Jehan Bseiso, Ramzy Baroud, Samah Sabawi I Remember My Name [42]
2016 Yasir Suleiman Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora [43]
2016 Lorenzo Kamel Imperial Perceptions: British influence and power in late Ottoman times [44]
2015 Jean-Pierre Filiu Gaza: A History [45]
2015 Lena Jayyusi Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation [46]
2015 Elias Sanbar The Palestinians: Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day [47]
2014 Ali Abunimah The Battle for Justice in Palestine [48]
2014 Diana Allan Refugees of Revolution: Experiences of Exile [49]
2014 Salim Tamari, Issam Nassar The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 [50]
2013 Rashid Khalidi Brokers of Deceit: How the US had undermined peace in the Middle East [51]
2013 Penny Johnson, Raja Shehadeh Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home [52]
2012 Ben White Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy [53]
2012 Sara Roy Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector [54]
2012 Jen Marlowe, Sami Al Jundi The Hour of Sunlight [55]

References

  1. ^ "Titles Recognized with Palestine Book Awards". Stanford University Press. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  2. ^ Hussein, Muhammad (18 January 2024). "Palestine Book Awards 2023 winners announced during night of solidarity with Gaza". Middle East Monitor.
  3. ^ "About the Palestine Book Awards". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  4. ^ "Palestine Book Awards". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  5. ^ "Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi among winners at Palestine Book Awards". Wisconsin Muslim Journal. 2024-02-02. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  6. ^ "Palestine Book Awards". ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY. 2022-05-08. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  7. ^ "They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  8. ^ "I Sing From the Window of Exile". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  9. ^ "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  10. ^ "Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  11. ^ "Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  12. ^ "Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  13. ^ "Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  14. ^ "Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes : Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  15. ^ "Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  16. ^ "Power born of dreams: my story is palestine". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  17. ^ "Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  18. ^ "Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  19. ^ "Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  20. ^ "Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  21. ^ "A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  22. ^ "Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  23. ^ "Against the Loveless World". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  24. ^ "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  25. ^ "Life in a Country Album". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  26. ^ "There Where You Are Not". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  27. ^ "The Parisian". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  28. ^ "Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  29. ^ "Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  30. ^ "Nabil Anani: Palestine, Land and People". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  31. ^ "Where the Bird Disappeared". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  32. ^ "In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  33. ^ "Balfour in the Dock: J.M.N. Jeffries & the Case for the Prosecution". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  34. ^ "Brothers Apart: Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Arab world". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  35. ^ "The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  36. ^ "On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  37. ^ "Gaza under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  38. ^ "The Commander: Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  39. ^ "Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  40. ^ "The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  41. ^ "Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  42. ^ "I Remember My Name". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  43. ^ "Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  44. ^ "Imperial Perceptions: British influence and power in late Ottoman times". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  45. ^ "Gaza: A History". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  46. ^ "Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  47. ^ "The Palestinians: Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  48. ^ "The Battle for Justice in Palestine". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  49. ^ "Refugees of Revolution: Experiences of Exile". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  50. ^ "The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  51. ^ "Brokers of Deceit: How the US had undermined peace in the Middle East". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  52. ^ "Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  53. ^ "Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  54. ^ "Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  55. ^ "The Hour of Sunlight". Palestine Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-23.