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