Palestine Book Award

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The Palestine Book Award is an annual literary award [1] presented by Middle East Monitor. [2] The award was inaugurated in 2012 to honor the best English -language books on the subject of Palestine. [3] [4] [5]

All Winners

YearAuthor(s)TitleRef
2023 Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom [6]
2023 Dareen Tatour I Sing From the Window of Exile [7]
2023Tahrir Hamdi Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity [8]
2023Nadim Bawalsa Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 [9]
2023Ibrahim Muhawi, Hussein Barghouthi Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir [10]
2022 Mosab Abu Toha Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza [11]
2022 Saree Makdsi Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial [12]
2022Ashjan AjourReclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body [13]
2022Stephen Sheehi, Lara SheehiPsychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine [14]
2022 Mohammad Sabaaneh Power born of dreams: my story is palestine [15]
2022Lynn WelchmanAl-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization [16]
2022Heba HayekSambac Beneath Unlikely Skies [17]
2021 Timothy Brennan Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said [18]
2021 Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics [19]
2021Erik SkareA history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east [20]
2021 Sonia Nimr, Marcia Lynx QualeyWondrous Journeys in Strange Lands [21]
2020 Susan Abulhawa Against the Loveless World [22]
2020 Rashid Khalidi The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 [23]
2020 Nathalie Handal Life in a Country Album [24]
2020 Kamal Boullata, Dr. Finbarr Barry FloodThere Where You Are Not [25]
2019 Isabella Hammad The Parisian [26]
2019 Noura Erakat Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine [27]
2019Andrew RossStone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel [28]
2019 Nabil Anani Palestine, Land and People [29]
2019 Ghassan Zaqtan Where the Bird Disappeared [30]
2018Reja-e BusailahIn the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood [31]
2018Colin AndersonBalfour in the Dock: J.M.N. Jeffries & the Case for the Prosecution [32]
2018Maha NassarBrothers Apart: Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Arab world [33]
2018 Salim Tamari The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine [34]
2017 Ella Shohat On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements [35]
2017Bjorn BrennerGaza under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance [36]
2017Laila ParsonsThe Commander: Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 [37]
2017 Samia Halaby Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre [38]
2017 Ilan Pappe The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories [39]
2016Anaheed Al-HardanPalestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities [40]
2016Jehan Bseiso, Ramzy Baroud, Samah Sabawi I Remember My Name [41]
2016 Yasir Suleiman Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora [42]
2016 Lorenzo Kamel Imperial Perceptions: British influence and power in late Ottoman times [43]
2015 Jean-Pierre Filiu Gaza: A History [44]
2015 Lena Jayyusi  [ ar ]Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation [45]
2015 Elias Sanbar The Palestinians: Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day [46]
2014 Ali Abunimah The Battle for Justice in Palestine [47]
2014 Diana Allan Refugees of Revolution: Experiences of Exile [48]
2014Salim Tamari, Issam Nassar The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 [49]
2013 Rashid Khalidi Brokers of Deceit: How the US had undermined peace in the Middle East [50]
2013Penny Johnson, Raja Shehadeh Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home [51]
2012Ben WhitePalestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy [52]
2012 Sara Roy Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector [53]
2012Jen Marlowe, Sami Al Jundi The Hour of Sunlight [54]

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