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]
Year | Author(s) | Title | Ref |
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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] |
2023 | Tahrir Hamdi | Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity | [8] |
2023 | Nadim Bawalsa | Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 | [9] |
2023 | Ibrahim 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] |
2022 | Ashjan Ajour | Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body | [13] |
2022 | Stephen Sheehi, Lara Sheehi | Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine | [14] |
2022 | Mohammad Sabaaneh | Power born of dreams: my story is palestine | [15] |
2022 | Lynn Welchman | Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization | [16] |
2022 | Heba Hayek | Sambac 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] |
2021 | Erik Skare | A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east | [20] |
2021 | Sonia Nimr, Marcia Lynx Qualey | Wondrous 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 Flood | There Where You Are Not | [25] |
2019 | Isabella Hammad | The Parisian | [26] |
2019 | Noura Erakat | Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine | [27] |
2019 | Andrew Ross | Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel | [28] |
2019 | Nabil Anani | Palestine, Land and People | [29] |
2019 | Ghassan Zaqtan | Where the Bird Disappeared | [30] |
2018 | Reja-e Busailah | In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood | [31] |
2018 | Colin Anderson | Balfour in the Dock: J.M.N. Jeffries & the Case for the Prosecution | [32] |
2018 | Maha Nassar | Brothers 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] |
2017 | Bjorn Brenner | Gaza under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance | [36] |
2017 | Laila Parsons | The 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] |
2016 | Anaheed Al-Hardan | Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities | [40] |
2016 | Jehan 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 | 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] |
2014 | Salim 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] |
2013 | Penny Johnson, Raja Shehadeh | Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home | [51] |
2012 | Ben White | Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy | [52] |
2012 | Sara Roy | Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector | [53] |
2012 | Jen Marlowe, Sami Al Jundi | The Hour of Sunlight | [54] |
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