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]
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 | [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 | [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] |