Palestine Book Award
Literary award for English-language books about Palestine
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The Palestine Book Award is an annual literary award presented by Middle East Monitor for English-language books about Palestine.[1][2] Established in 2012, the award honors books across a range of genres by writers, scholars, translators, and artists whose work focuses on Palestinian history, society, politics, and culture.[3][4][5]
Awarded forEnglish-language books about Palestine
Presented byMiddle East Monitor
First award2012
Websitewww.palestinebookawards.com
| Palestine Book Award | |
|---|---|
Official logo | |
| Awarded for | English-language books about Palestine |
| Presented by | Middle East Monitor |
| First award | 2012 |
| Website | www |
Winners
| Year | Author(s) | Title | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Jen Marlowe, Sami Al Jundi | The Hour of Sunlight | [6] |
| 2012 | Sara Roy | Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector | [7] |
| 2012 | Ben White | Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy | [8] |
| 2013 | Penny Johnson, Raja Shehadeh | Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home | [9] |
| 2013 | Rashid Khalidi | Brokers of Deceit: How the US had undermined peace in the Middle East | [10] |
| 2014 | Salim Tamari, Issam Nassar | The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 | [11] |
| 2014 | Diana Allan | Refugees of Revolution: Experiences of Exile | [12] |
| 2014 | Ali Abunimah | The Battle for Justice in Palestine | [13] |
| 2015 | Elias Sanbar | The Palestinians: Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day | [14] |
| 2015 | Lena Jayyusi | Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation | [15] |
| 2015 | Jean-Pierre Filiu | Gaza: A History | [16] |
| 2016 | Lorenzo Kamel | Imperial Perceptions: British influence and power in late Ottoman times | [17] |
| 2016 | Yasir Suleiman | Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora | [18] |
| 2016 | Jehan Bseiso, Ramzy Baroud, Samah Sabawi | I Remember My Name | [19] |
| 2016 | Anaheed Al-Hardan | Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities | [20] |
| 2017 | Ilan Pappe | The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories | [21] |
| 2017 | Samia Halaby | Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre | [22] |
| 2017 | Laila Parsons | The Commander: Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 | [23] |
| 2017 | Bjorn Brenner | Gaza under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance | [24] |
| 2017 | Ella Shohat | On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements | [25] |
| 2018 | Salim Tamari | The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine | [26] |
| 2018 | Maha Nassar | Brothers Apart: Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Arab world | [27] |
| 2018 | Colin Anderson | Balfour in the Dock: J.M.N. Jeffries & the Case for the Prosecution | [28] |
| 2018 | Reja-e Busailah | In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood | [29] |
| 2019 | Ghassan Zaqtan | Where the Bird Disappeared | [30] |
| 2019 | Nabil Anani | Palestine, Land and People | [31] |
| 2019 | Andrew Ross | Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel | [32] |
| 2019 | Noura Erakat | Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine | [33] |
| 2019 | Isabella Hammad | The Parisian | [34] |
| 2020 | Kamal Boullata, Dr. Finbarr Barry Flood | There Where You Are Not | [35] |
| 2020 | Nathalie Handal | Life in a Country Album | [36] |
| 2020 | Rashid Khalidi | The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 | [37] |
| 2020 | Susan Abulhawa | Against the Loveless World | [38] |
| 2021 | Sonia Nimr, Marcia Lynx Qualey | Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands | [39] |
| 2021 | Erik Skare | A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east | [40] |
| 2021 | Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick | Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics | [41] |
| 2021 | Timothy Brennan | Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said | [42] |
| 2022 | Heba Hayek | Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies | [43] |
| 2022 | Lynn Welchman | Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization | [44] |
| 2022 | Mohammad Sabaaneh | Power born of dreams: my story is palestine | [45] |
| 2022 | Stephen Sheehi, Lara Sheehi | Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine | [46] |
| 2022 | Ashjan Ajour | Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body | [47] |
| 2022 | Saree Makdsi | Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial | [48] |
| 2022 | Mosab Abu Toha | Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza | [49] |
| 2023 | Ibrahim Muhawi, Hussein Barghouthi | Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir | [50] |
| 2023 | Nadim Bawalsa | Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 | [51] |
| 2023 | Tahrir Hamdi | Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity | [52] |
| 2023 | Dareen Tatour | I Sing From the Window of Exile | [53] |
| 2023 | Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi | They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom | [54] |
| 2024 | Lisa Bhungalia | Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine | [55] |
| 2024 | Sandra Barrilaro, Teresa Aranguren | Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba | [56] |
| 2024 | Alan Morrison, Atef Alshaer | Out of Gaza: New Palestinian Poetry | [57] |
| 2024 | Khadijeh Habashneh | Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit | [58] |
| 2024 | Amanda Najib | Lana Makes Purple Pizza: A Palestinian Food Tale | [59] |
| 2024 | Ghassan Kanafani, Hazem Jamjoum | The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine | [60] |
| 2025 | Nasser Abourahme | The Time Beneath the Concrete: Palestine Between Camp and Colony | [61] |
| 2025 | Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Hazem Jamjoum | No One Knows Their Blood Type | [62] |
| 2025 | Refaat Alareer | If I Must Die | [63] |
| 2025 | Mohammad Tarbush | My Palestine: An Impossible Exile | [64] |
| 2025 | Sarah Aziza | The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders | [65] |
| 2025 | Pankaj Mishra | The World After Gaza | [66] |
| 2025 | Mohammed el-Kurd | Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal | [67] |
| 2025 | Omar El Akkad | One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This | [68] |