Arab American Book Award

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Arab American Book Award
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Website arabamericanmuseum.org/book-awards/

The Arab American Book Award, established in 2006, is an annual literary award to celebrate and support the research of, and the written work of, Arab Americans and their culture. The Arab American Book Award encourages the publication and excellence of books that preserve and advance the understanding, knowledge, and resources of the Arab American community by celebrating the thoughts and lives of Arab Americans. The purpose of the Award is to inspire authors, educate readers and foster a respect and understanding of the Arab American culture. [1]

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The Arab American Book Award was brought about by the Arab American National Museum and faculty members of the nearby University of Toledo. The winning titles are chosen by groups of selected readers including respected authors, university professors, artists and AANM staff. The Awards are given during an invitation only event in the Fall of the award year. The AANM first gave these awards in 2007 for books published in 2006; for 2007, the number of submissions more than doubled from the inaugural year. [2]

To help ensure the continuity of the Arab American Book Award a special endowment fund has been launched with a $10,000 gift from Drs. A. Adnan and Barbara C. Aswad. Dr. Barbara C. Aswad is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and a past president of the Middle Eastern Studies Association and a Board Member Emerita for the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), parent organization of the Arab American National Museum. Dr. A. Adnan Aswad is Professor Emeritus of Engineering at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. The Aswads, now based in Los Angeles, were inspired to make the gift after the inaugural Book Award ceremony in Fall 2007. [2]

In 2011, the non-fiction prize was renamed to honor the legacy and contributions to Arab American scholarship of Evelyn Shakir, who died of breast cancer in 2010. In addition to winning the Arab American Book Award for Fiction in 2008, Professor Shakir extensively researched the history of Arab women and wrote the groundbreaking work Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States in 1997. Evelyn's longtime partner, poet George Ellenbogen, established the award in collaboration with the Arab American National Museum. [3]

Chronology change (2009)

In 2009, The Arab American Book Award Committee changed the name of the '2008 Arab American Book Award' to the '2009 Arab American Book Award' in order to reflect the true award date instead of the publication date of the winning books. All dates in the previous Award years were also changed retroactively. While the date within the Award name has changed, the rules regarding the publication dates for eligible submissions have not.

Award recipients

Adult fiction

Winners and honorable mentions in Adult fiction [4]
YearAuthor(s)TitleResultRef.
2007 Hisham Matar In the Country of Men Winner [5]
2008 Evelyn Shakir Remember Me to LebanonWinner [6]
Diana Abu-Jaber OriginHonorable mention [6]
2009 Randa Jarrar A Map of Home: A Novel Winner [7]
2010 Etel Adnan Master of the Eclipse: And Other StoriesWinner [8]
2011 Thérèse Soukar Chehade Loom: a NovelWinner [9] [10]
2012 Diana Abu-Jaber Birds of ParadiseWinner [11]
Hisham Matar Anatomy of a Disappearance Honorable mention [11]
2013 Joseph Geha Lebanese BlondeWinner [12]
Hedy Habra Flying CarpetsHonorable mention [12]
2014 Sinan Antoon The Corpse WasherWinner [13]
Claire Messud The Woman Upstairs Honorable mention [13]
2015 Rabih Alameddine An Unnecessary Woman Winner (tie) [14] [15]
Laila Lalami The Moor's Account
2016 Susan Muaddi Darraj A Curious LandWinner [16]
Rajia Hassib In the Language of MiraclesHonorable mention [16]
2017 Rabih Alameddine The Angel of HistoryWinner [17]
Mona Awad 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat GirlHonorable mention [17]
2018 Hala Alyan Salt Houses Winner [18]
2019 Lena Mahmoud AmreekiyaWinner [19]
2020 Laila Lalami The Other Americans Winner [20] [21] [22]
Etaf Rum A Woman is No ManHonorable mention [20]
2021 Susan Abulhawa Against the Loveless WorldWinner [21] [23]
Dima Alzayat Alligator And Other StoriesHonorable mention [23]
2022 Eman Quotah Bride of the Sea Winner [24] [21]
2023 Chelsea Abdullah The Stardust Thief Winner (tie) [21] [25] [26]
Noor Naga If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award

Prior to 2011, this award was referred to primarily as the Non-Fiction Award.

Winners and honorable mentions in non-fiction [4]
YearAuthor(s)TitleResultRef.
2007 Rashid Khalidi The Iron CageWinner [5]
Randa Kayyali The Arab AmericansHonorable mention [5]
Tim Jon Semmerling “Evil” Arabs in American Popular Film
2008 John Tofik Karam Another ArabesqueWinner [6]
Raff Ellis Kisses from a DistanceHonorable mention [6]
Nawal Nasrallah Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens
2009 Moustafa Bayoumi How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in AmericaWinner [7]
Fayeq Oweis The Encyclopedia of Arab American ArtistsHonorable mention [7]
Saree Makdisi Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
2010 Gregory Orfalea Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family, Place, and PoliticsWinner [8]
Louise Cainkar Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11Honorable mention [8]
Alia Malek A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories.
2011 Samir Abu-Absi Arab Americans in Toledo: Cultural Assimilation and Community Involvement editedWinner [9] [10]
Manal M. Omar Barefoot in BaghdadHonorable mention [9] [10]
2012 Rabab Abdulhadi , Evelyn Alsultany and Nadine Naber (eds.)Arab and Arab-American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, & Belonging editedWinner [11]
Steven Salaita Modern Arab-American Fiction: A Reader's GuideHonorable mention [11]
2013 Anthony Shadid House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and Lost Middle EastWinner [12]
Sophia Al Maria The Girl Who Fell to EarthHonorable mention [12]
Soha Al-Jurf Even My Voice Is Silence
2014 Nadje Al-Ali and Deborah Al-NajjarWe Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War editedWinner [13]
Evelyn Alsultany and Ella Shohat Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora editedHonorable mention [13]
Laila el-Haddad and Maggie SchmittThe Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Cultural Journey
2015 Sally Howell Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past Winner [14] [15]
2016 Moustafa Bayoumi This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on TerrorWinner (tie) [16]
Mona M. Amer and Germine H. AwadHandbook of Arab American Psychology
2017 Steven Salaita Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and PalestineWinner [17]
Hanan Hammad Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in EgyptHonorable mention [17]
2018 Pamela E. Pennock The Rise of the Arab-American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight Against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s–1980sWinner [18]
Mehammed Amadeus Mack Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National CultureHonorable mention [18]
2019 Oswaldo Truzzi Syrian and Lebanese Patricios in Sao Paulo,Winner [19]
2020 Massoud Hayoun When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten HistoryWinner (tie) [20] [21]
Stacy Fahrenthold Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925
Sherine Hafez Women of the Midan: The Untold Stories of Egypt's RevolutionariesHonorable mention [20]
2021 Sarah M.A. Gualtieri Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian CaliforniaWinner (tie) [23] [21]
Helen Zughaib and Elia ZughaibStories My Father Told Me
Sirène Harb Articulations Of Resistance: Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab American PoetryHonorable mention [23]
2022 Mansoor Adayfe Don’t Forget Us Here Winner (tie) [24] [21]
Zainab Saleh Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia
Michael W. Suleiman , Suad Joseph, and Louise Cainkar Arab American Women: Representation and RefusalHonorable mention [24]
2023 Edward E. Curtis IV Muslims of the HeartlandWinner (tie) [21] [25] [26]
Ghassan Zeineddine , Nabeel Abraham, and Sally Howell (Eds.)Hadha Baladuna
Evelyn Alsultany Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim InclusionHonorable mention [25] [26]
Louise Cainkar , Pauline Homsi Vinson, and Amira Jarmakani (Eds.)Sajjilu: A Reader in SWANA StudiesHonorable mention
Luma Mufleh Learning America: One Woman’s Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee ChildrenHonorable mention

Children's/Young Adult

Children's/Young Adult winners and honorable mentions [4] [27] [28]
YearAuthor(s)TitleResultRef.
2007 Eve Bunting with Ted Lewin (illus.)One Green AppleWinner [5]
2008 Ibtisam Barakat Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian ChildhoodWinner [6]
2009 Naomi Shihab Nye Honeybee: Poems & Short ProseWinner [7]
2010No winner [8]
2011 Diane Stanley Saving SkyWinner [9] [10]
Maha Addasi with Ned Gannon (illus.)Time to PrayHonorable mention [9] [10]
2012No winner
2013 Karen Leggett Abouraya and Susan L. Roth Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured BooksWinner [12]
Tahereh Mafi Shatter Me Honorable mention [12]
2014 Yvonne Wakim Dennis and Maha Addasi Kids Guide to Arab American HistoryWinner [13]
Saima S. Hussain The Arab World Thought of ItHonorable mention [13]
2015 Naomi Shihab Nye The Turtle of OmanWinner [14] [15]
Elsa Marston with Claire Ewart (illus.)The Olive TreeHonorable mention [14]
2016No Winner [16]
2017 Michelle Chalfoun The Treasure of Maria MamounWinner [17]
Hayan Charara The Three LucysHonorable mention [17]
Ibtisam Barakat Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine
2018No Winner [18]
2019 Hoda Kotb I’ve Loved You Since ForeverWinner [19]
Somaiya Daud MirageHonorable mention [19]
2020 Malaka Gharib I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic MemoirWinner [20] [29]
Jasmine Warga Other Words for Home Honorable mention [20]
2021 Aya Khalil with Anait Semirdzhyan (illus.)The Arabic QuiltWinner (tie) [23]
Susan Muaddi Darraj Farah Rocks Fifth Grade
2022 Safia Elhillo Home is Not a CountryWinner [24]
2023 Cathy Camper Arab, Arab All Year Long!Winner (C) [25] [26]
Rashida Tlaib , Adam Tlaib, and Miranda Paul Mama in Congress: Rashida Tlaib’s Journey to WashingtonHonorable mention (C) [25] [26]
Nora Lester Murad Ida in the MiddleWinner (YA) [25] [26]
Naomi Shihab Nye The Turtle of MichiganHonorable mention (YA) [25] [26]

George Ellenbogen Poetry Award

Winners and honorable mentions in poetry [4]
YearAuthor(s)TitleResultRef.
2009 Suheir Hammad breaking poemsWinner [7]
2010 Dunya Mikhail Diary of a Wave Outside the SeaWinner [8]
2011 Khaled Mattawa TocquevilleWinner [9] [10]
Farid Matuk This Is a Nice NeighborhoodHonorable mention [9] [10]
2012 Philip Metres Abu Ghraib AriasWinner [11]
Naomi Shihab Nye TransferHonorable mention [11]
2013 Hala Alyan AtriumWinner [12]
Etel Adnan Sea and FogHonorable mention [12]
2014 Philip Metres A Concordance of LeavesWinner [13]
Farid Matuk My Daughter La CholaHonorable mention [13]
Fady Joudah Alight
2015 Matthew Shenoda Tahrir Suite: PoemsWinner [14] [15]
Samuel Hazo And the Time Is: Poems, 1958-2003Honorable mention [14]
2016 Nathalie Handal The RepublicsWinner [16] [30]
Philip Metres Sand OperaHonorable mention [16]
2017 Hayan Charara Something SinisterWinner [17]
Lauren Camp One Hundred HungersHonorable mention [17]
Mohja Kahf Hagar Poems
2018 Safia Elhillo The January ChildrenWinner [18]
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha Water & SaltHonorable mention [18]
2019 Fady Joudah Footnotes in the Order of DisappearanceWinner [19]
Noor Al-Samarrai El CerritoHonorable mention [19]
2020 Zaina Alsous A Theory of BirdsWinner [20]
Marwa Helal Invasive SpeciesHonorable mention [20]
2021 George Abraham BirthrightWinner [23]
Noor Naga Washes, PraysHonorable mention [23]
2022 Threa Almontaser The Wild Fox of YemenWinner [24]
Eli Tareq Bechelany-Lynch The Good ArabsHonorable mention [24]
2023 Zeina Hashem Beck OWinner [25] [26]
Noor Hindi DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.Honorable mention [25] [26]
Lubna Safi Your Blue and the Quiet Lament

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