Palestine Book Award

{{Short description|Literary Award for English language books about Palestine}}

The Palestine Book Award is an annual literary award{{Cite web |last= |title=Titles Recognized with Palestine Book Awards |url=https://www.sup.org/books/awards/?award=Palestine%20Book%20Awards |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Stanford University Press |language=en}} presented by Middle East Monitor.{{Cite web |last=Hussein |first=Muhammad |date=18 January 2024 |title=Palestine Book Awards 2023 winners announced during night of solidarity with Gaza |url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240118-winners-of-palestine-book-awards-2023-announced/ |website=Middle East Monitor}} The award was inaugurated in 2012 to honor the best English -language books on the subject of Palestine.{{Cite web |title=About the Palestine Book Awards |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/about |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2024-02-02 |title=Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi among winners at Palestine Book Awards |url=https://wisconsinmuslimjournal.org/https-www-newarab-com-news-ahed-tamimi-among-winners-palestine-book-awardsfbclidiwar2feykehxyqegg1-tgh8tb7ibsgwo3empz7etv_22euxe4twrhrs9ovdco_aem_asslpmtsicg9xrorstppug3bfcby_2xwgxwwnbg3waunhwkhxi/ |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Wisconsin Muslim Journal |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2022-05-08 |title=Palestine Book Awards |url=https://arablit.org/tag/palestine-book-awards/ |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY |language=en-US}}

All Winners

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!Year

!Author(s)

!Title

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2023

|Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi

|They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

|{{Cite web |title=They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/item/they-called-me-a-lioness-a-palestinian-girl-s-fight-for-freedom |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2023

|Dareen Tatour

|I Sing From the Window of Exile

|{{Cite web |title=I Sing From the Window of Exile |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/item/i-sing-from-the-window-of-exile |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2023

|Tahrir Hamdi

|Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity

|{{Cite web |title=Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/item/imagining-palestine-cultures-of-exile-and-national-identity |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2023

|Nadim Bawalsa

|Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948

|{{Cite web |title=Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/item/transnational-palestine-migration-and-the-right-of-return-before-1948 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2023

|Ibrahim Muhawi, Hussein Barghouthi

|Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir

|{{Cite web |title=Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/item/among-the-almond-trees-a-palestinian-memoir |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2022

|Mosab Abu Toha

|Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

|{{Cite web |title=Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2022/item/things-you-may-find-hidden-in-my-ear-poems-from-gaza?category_id=29 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2022

|Saree Makdsi

|Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial

|{{Cite web |title=Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2022/item/tolerance-is-a-wasteland-palestine-and-the-culture-of-denial?category_id=29 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2022

|Ashjan Ajour

|Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body

|{{Cite web |title=Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes : Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2022/item/reclaiming-humanity-in-palestinian-hunger-strikes-revolutionary-subjectivity-and-decolonizing-the-body?category_id=29 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2022

|Stephen Sheehi, Lara Sheehi

|Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine

|{{Cite web |title=Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2022/item/psychoanalysis-under-occupation-practicing-resistance-in-palestine?category_id=29 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2022

|Mohammad Sabaaneh

|Power born of dreams: my story is palestine

|{{Cite web |title=Power born of dreams: my story is palestine |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2022/item/power-born-of-dreams-my-story-is-palestine?category_id=29 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2022

|Lynn Welchman

|Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization

|{{Cite web |title=Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2022/item/al-haq-a-global-history-of-the-first-palestinian-human-rights-organization?category_id=29 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2022

|Heba Hayek

|Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies

|{{Cite web |title=Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2022/item/sambac-beneath-unlikely-skies?category_id=29 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2021

|Timothy Brennan

|Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said

|{{Cite web |title=Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2021/item/places-of-mind-a-life-of-edward-said?category_id=25 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2021

|Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

|Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics

|{{Cite web |title=Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2021/item/except-for-palestine-the-limits-of-progressive-politics?category_id=25 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2021

|Erik Skare

|A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east

|{{Cite web |title=A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2021/item/a-history-of-palestinian-islamic-jihad-faith-awareness-and-revolution-in-the-middle-east?category_id=25 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2021

|Sonia Nimr, Marcia Lynx Qualey

|Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands

|{{Cite web |title=Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2021/item/wondrous-journeys-in-strange-lands?category_id=25 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2020

|Susan Abulhawa

|Against the Loveless World

|{{Cite web |title=Against the Loveless World |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2020/item/against-the-loveless-world?category_id=24 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2020

|Rashid Khalidi

|The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

|{{Cite web |title=The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2020/item/the-hundred-years-war-on-palestine-a-history-of-settler-colonialism-and-resistance-1917-2017?category_id=24 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2020

|Nathalie Handal

|Life in a Country Album

|{{Cite web |title=Life in a Country Album |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2020/item/life-in-a-country-album |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2020

|Kamal Boullata, Dr. Finbarr Barry Flood

|There Where You Are Not

|{{Cite web |title=There Where You Are Not |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2020/item/there-where-you-are-not?category_id=24 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2019

|Isabella Hammad

|The Parisian

|{{Cite web |title=The Parisian |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2019/item/the-parisan?category_id=22 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2019

|Noura Erakat

|Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

|{{Cite web |title=Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2019/item/justice-for-some-law-and-the-question-of-palestine?category_id=22 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2019

|Andrew Ross

|Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel

|{{Cite web |title=Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2019/item/stone-men-the-palestinians-who-built-israel?category_id=22 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2019

|Nabil Anani

|Palestine, Land and People

|{{Cite web |title=Nabil Anani: Palestine, Land and People |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2019/item/nabil-anani-palestine-land-and-people?category_id=22 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2019

|Ghassan Zaqtan

|Where the Bird Disappeared

|{{Cite web |title=Where the Bird Disappeared |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/2019/item/where-the-bird-disappeared?category_id=22 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2018

|Reja-e Busailah

|In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood

|{{Cite web |title=In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/in-the-land-of-my-birth-a-palestinian-boyhood?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2018

|Colin Anderson

|Balfour in the Dock: J.M.N. Jeffries & the Case for the Prosecution

|{{Cite web |title=Balfour in the Dock: J.M.N. Jeffries & the Case for the Prosecution |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/balfour-in-the-dock?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2018

|Maha Nassar

|Brothers Apart: Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Arab world

|{{Cite web |title=Brothers Apart: Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Arab world |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/brothers-apart-palestinian-citizens-of-israel-and-the-arab-world?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2018

|Salim Tamari

|The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine

|{{Cite web |title=The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/the-great-war-and-the-remaking-of-palestine?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2017

|Ella Shohat

|On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements

|{{Cite web |title=On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/on-the-arab-jew-palestine-and-other-displacements |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2017

|Bjorn Brenner

|Gaza under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance

|{{Cite web |title=Gaza under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/gaza-under-hamas-from-islamic-democracy-to-islamist-governance |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2017

|Laila Parsons

|The Commander: Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948

|{{Cite web |title=The Commander: Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/the-commander-fawzi-al-qawuqji-and-the-fight-for-arab-independence-1914-1948 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2017

|Samia Halaby

|Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre

|{{Cite web |title=Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/drawing-the-kafr-qasem-massacre |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2017

|Ilan Pappe

|The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories

|{{Cite web |title=The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/the-biggest-prison-on-earth-a-history-of-the-occupied-territories |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2016

|Anaheed Al-Hardan

|Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities

|{{Cite web |title=Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/palestinians-in-syria-nakba-memories-of-shattered-communities?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2016

|Jehan Bseiso, Ramzy Baroud, Samah Sabawi

|I Remember My Name

|{{Cite web |title=I Remember My Name |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/i-remember-my-name?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2016

|Yasir Suleiman

|Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora

|{{Cite web |title=Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/being-palestinian-personal-reflections-on-palestinian-identity-in-the-diaspora?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2016

|Lorenzo Kamel

|Imperial Perceptions: British influence and power in late Ottoman times

|{{Cite web |title=Imperial Perceptions: British influence and power in late Ottoman times |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/imperial-perceptions-british-influence-and-power-in-late-ottoman-times?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2015

|Jean-Pierre Filiu

|Gaza: A History

|{{Cite web |title=Gaza: A History |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/gaza-a-history?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2015

|{{ill|Lena Jayyusi|ar|لينة الجيوسي}}

|Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation

|{{Cite web |title=Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/jerusalem-interrupted-modernity-and-colonial-transformation?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2015

|Elias Sanbar

|The Palestinians: Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day

|{{Cite web |title=The Palestinians: Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/the-palestinians-photographs-of-a-land-and-its-people-from-1839-to-the-present-day?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2014

|Ali Abunimah

|The Battle for Justice in Palestine

|{{Cite web |title=The Battle for Justice in Palestine |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/the-battle-for-justice-in-palestine?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2014

|Diana Allan

|Refugees of Revolution: Experiences of Exile

|{{Cite web |title=Refugees of Revolution: Experiences of Exile |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/refugees-of-revolution-experiences-of-exile?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2014

|Salim Tamari, Issam Nassar

|The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948

|{{Cite web |title=The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/the-storyteller-of-jerusalem-the-life-and-times-of-wasif-jawhariyyeh-1904-1948?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2013

|Rashid Khalidi

|Brokers of Deceit: How the US had undermined peace in the Middle East

|{{Cite web |title=Brokers of Deceit: How the US had undermined peace in the Middle East |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/brokers-of-deceit-how-the-us-had-undermined-peace-in-the-middle-east?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2013

|Penny Johnson, Raja Shehadeh

|Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home

|{{Cite web |title=Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/seeking-palestine-new-palestinian-writing-on-exile-and-home?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2012

|Ben White

|Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy

|{{Cite web |title=Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/palestinians-in-israel-segregation-discrimination-and-democracy?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2012

|Sara Roy

|Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector

|{{Cite web |title=Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/hamas-and-civil-society-in-gaza-engaging-the-islamist-social-sector?category_id=6 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

2012

|Jen Marlowe, Sami Al Jundi

|The Hour of Sunlight

|{{Cite web |title=The Hour of Sunlight |url=https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/winners/item/the-hour-of-sunlight |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Palestine Book Awards |language=en-gb}}

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