Palestine Book Award

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

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

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