Palestine Book Award

Palestine Book Award
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Awarded forEnglish-language books about Palestine
Presented byMiddle East Monitor
First award2012
Websitewww.palestinebookawards.com

The Palestine Book Award is an annual literary award presented by Middle East Monitor for English-language books about Palestine.[1][2] Established in 2012, the award honors books across a range of genres by writers, scholars, translators, and artists whose work focuses on Palestinian history, society, politics, and culture.[3][4][5]

Winners

Year Author(s) Title Ref
2012 Jen Marlowe, Sami Al Jundi The Hour of Sunlight [6]
2012 Sara Roy Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector [7]
2012 Ben White Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy [8]
2013 Penny Johnson, Raja Shehadeh Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home [9]
2013 Rashid Khalidi Brokers of Deceit: How the US had undermined peace in the Middle East [10]
2014 Salim Tamari, Issam Nassar The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 [11]
2014 Diana Allan Refugees of Revolution: Experiences of Exile [12]
2014 Ali Abunimah The Battle for Justice in Palestine [13]
2015 Elias Sanbar The Palestinians: Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day [14]
2015 Lena Jayyusi Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation [15]
2015 Jean-Pierre Filiu Gaza: A History [16]
2016 Lorenzo Kamel Imperial Perceptions: British influence and power in late Ottoman times [17]
2016 Yasir Suleiman Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora [18]
2016 Jehan Bseiso, Ramzy Baroud, Samah Sabawi I Remember My Name [19]
2016 Anaheed Al-Hardan Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities [20]
2017 Ilan Pappe The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories [21]
2017 Samia Halaby Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre [22]
2017 Laila Parsons The Commander: Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 [23]
2017 Bjorn Brenner Gaza under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance [24]
2017 Ella Shohat On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements [25]
2018 Salim Tamari The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine [26]
2018 Maha Nassar Brothers Apart: Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Arab world [27]
2018 Colin Anderson Balfour in the Dock: J.M.N. Jeffries & the Case for the Prosecution [28]
2018 Reja-e Busailah In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood [29]
2019 Ghassan Zaqtan Where the Bird Disappeared [30]
2019 Nabil Anani Palestine, Land and People [31]
2019 Andrew Ross Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel [32]
2019 Noura Erakat Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine [33]
2019 Isabella Hammad The Parisian [34]
2020 Kamal Boullata, Dr. Finbarr Barry Flood There Where You Are Not [35]
2020 Nathalie Handal Life in a Country Album [36]
2020 Rashid Khalidi The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 [37]
2020 Susan Abulhawa Against the Loveless World [38]
2021 Sonia Nimr, Marcia Lynx Qualey Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands [39]
2021 Erik Skare A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east [40]
2021 Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics [41]
2021 Timothy Brennan Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said [42]
2022 Heba Hayek Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies [43]
2022 Lynn Welchman Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization [44]
2022 Mohammad Sabaaneh Power born of dreams: my story is palestine [45]
2022 Stephen Sheehi, Lara Sheehi Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine [46]
2022 Ashjan Ajour Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body [47]
2022 Saree Makdsi Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial [48]
2022 Mosab Abu Toha Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza [49]
2023 Ibrahim Muhawi, Hussein Barghouthi Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir [50]
2023 Nadim Bawalsa Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 [51]
2023 Tahrir Hamdi Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity [52]
2023 Dareen Tatour I Sing From the Window of Exile [53]
2023 Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom [54]
2024 Lisa Bhungalia Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine [55]
2024 Sandra Barrilaro, Teresa Aranguren Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba [56]
2024 Alan Morrison, Atef Alshaer Out of Gaza: New Palestinian Poetry [57]
2024 Khadijeh Habashneh Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit [58]
2024 Amanda Najib Lana Makes Purple Pizza: A Palestinian Food Tale [59]
2024 Ghassan Kanafani, Hazem Jamjoum The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine [60]
2025 Nasser Abourahme The Time Beneath the Concrete: Palestine Between Camp and Colony [61]
2025 Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Hazem Jamjoum No One Knows Their Blood Type [62]
2025 Refaat Alareer If I Must Die [63]
2025 Mohammad Tarbush My Palestine: An Impossible Exile [64]
2025 Sarah Aziza The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders [65]
2025 Pankaj Mishra The World After Gaza [66]
2025 Mohammed el-Kurd Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal [67]
2025 Omar El Akkad One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This [68]

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