The Palestine Book Award is an annual literary award presented by

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. The award was inaugurated in 2012 to honor the best English -language books on the subject of Palestine.

All Winners

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Dena Takruri Dena Takruri () is a Palestinian-American journalist, on-air presenter, and digital producer with AJ+, an online news service owned by Al Jazeera Media Network. She is the host of the award-winning AJ+ docuseries ''Direct From with Dena Takrur ...

Ahed Tamimi Ahed Tamimi (, also romanized ''Ahd''; born 31 January 2001) is a Palestinian activist from the village of Nabi Salih in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Best known for appearances in photos and videos in which she confronts Israeli soldiers, ...

, They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom , , - , 2023 , Dareen Tatour , I Sing From the Window of Exile , , - , 2023 , Tahrir Hamdi , Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity , , - , 2023 , Nadim Bawalsa , Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 , , - , 2023 , Ibrahim Muhawi, Hussein Barghouthi , Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir , , - , 2022 , Mosab Abu Toha , Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza , , - , 2022 , Saree Makdsi , Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial , , - , 2022 , Ashjan Ajour , Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body , , - , 2022 , Stephen Sheehi, Lara Sheehi , Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine , , - , 2022 , Mohammad Sabaaneh , Power born of dreams: my story is palestine , , - , 2022 , Lynn Welchman , Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization , , - , 2022 , Heba Hayek , Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies , , - , 2021 ,

Timothy Brennan Timothy Andres Brennan (born 1953) is a cultural theorist, professor of literature, public speaker, and activist. He is known for his work on American imperialism, the political role of intellectuals, Afro-Latin music, and the problem of the "huma ...

, Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said , , - , 2021 ,

Marc Lamont Hill Marc Lamont Hill (born December 17, 1978) is an American academic, author, activist, and television personality. He is a professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. He is the host of '' UpFront'' on Al Jazeera Eng ...

, Mitchell Plitnick , Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics , , - , 2021 , Erik Skare , A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, awareness, and revolution in the middle east , , - , 2021 , Sonia Nimr, Marcia Lynx Qualey , Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands , , - , 2020 ,

Susan Abulhawa Susan Abulhawa (; born June 3, 1970) is a Palestinian-American scientist, writer and activist. Her first novel, '' Mornings in Jenin'', was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies. The sales and reach of her debut novel ...

, Against the Loveless World , , - , 2020 ,

Rashid Khalidi Rashid Ismail Khalidi (; born 18 November 1948) is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He served as editor of the '' Journal of Palestine St ...

, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 , , - , 2020 ,

Nathalie Handal Nathalie Handal is a poet, writer and professor, described as a “contemporary Orpheus.” A New Yorker and a quintessential global citizen, she has published 10 prize-winning books, including ''Life in a Country Album.'' She is praised for her ...

, Life in a Country Album , , - , 2020 ,

Kamal Boullata Kamal Boullata (;1942 − August 6, 2019) was a Palestinian artist and art historian. He worked primarily with acrylic and silkscreen. His work was abstract in style, focusing on the ideas of division in State of Palestine, Palestinian identity an ...

, Dr. Finbarr Barry Flood , There Where You Are Not , , - , 2019 , Isabella Hammad , The Parisian , , - , 2019 ,

Noura Erakat Noura Saleh Erakat (, ; ; born ) is a Palestinian-American activist, university professor, legal scholar, and human rights attorney. She is currently a professor at Rutgers University, specializing in international studies. Her primary focus is ...

, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine , , - , 2019 , Andrew Ross , Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel , , - , 2019 ,

Nabil Anani Nabil Anani (; born 1943) is a Palestinian visual artist. He was one of the founders of the contemporary Palestinian art movement called New Visions. Biography After his graduation in 1969, from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria Universit ...

, Palestine, Land and People , , - , 2019 ,

Ghassan Zaqtan Ghassan Zaqtan (; born 1954) is a Palestinian poet, author of ten collections of poetry. He is also a novelist, editor. He was born in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, and has lived in Jordan, Beirut, Damascus, and Tunis. His book “Like a Straw Bird i ...

, Where the Bird Disappeared , , - , 2018 , Reja-e Busailah , In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood , , - , 2018 , Colin Anderson , Balfour in the Dock: J.M.N. Jeffries & the Case for the Prosecution , , - , 2018 , Maha Nassar , Brothers Apart: Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Arab world , , - , 2018 ,

Salim Tamari Salim Tamari (; born 1945), is a Palestinian sociologist who is the director of the Institute of Palestine Studies and an adjunct professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Pro ...

, The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine , , - , 2017 ,

Ella Shohat Ella Habiba Shohat is a professor of cultural studies at New York University. She has written and lectured on the topics of Eurocentrism, orientalism, Postcolonialism, post-colonialism, Transnationalism, trans-nationalism, Diaspora, diasporic cult ...

, On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements , , - , 2017 , Bjorn Brenner , Gaza under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance , , - , 2017 , Laila Parsons , The Commander: Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 , , - , 2017 ,

Samia Halaby Samia A. Halaby (born 1936) is a Palestinian-American visual artist, activist, educator, and scholar. Halaby is recognized as a pioneer of abstract painting and Computer art. Since beginning her artistic career in the late 1950s, she has exhibit ...

, Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre , , - , 2017 ,

Ilan Pappe Ilan may refer to: Organization *ILAN, Israeli umbrella organization for the treatment of disabled children Given name * Ilan (name), a Hebrew/Israeli name * Ilan Bakhar, a retired Israeli footballer * Ilan Araújo Dall'Igna, a Brazilian football ...

, The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories , , - , 2016 , Anaheed Al-Hardan , Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities , , - , 2016 , Jehan Bseiso, Ramzy Baroud,

Samah Sabawi Samah Sabawi (; born 1967) is a Palestinian playwright, scholar, commentator and poet. Her plays include ''Cries from the Land'' (2003), ''Three Wishes'' (2008), ''Tales of a City by the Sea'' (2014) and ''Them'' (2019). Sabawi has received two ...

, I Remember My Name , , - , 2016 ,

Yasir Suleiman Yasir Suleiman CBE is a scholar of Arabic literature and language, and modern Middle Eastern politics. He is Emeritus Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is a Palestinian Arab living in t ...

, Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora , , - , 2016 , Lorenzo Kamel , Imperial Perceptions: British influence and power in late Ottoman times , , - , 2015 ,

Jean-Pierre Filiu Jean-Pierre Filiu (born in Paris, 1961) is a French professor of Middle East studies at Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs, an Orientalist and an Arabist. Life and career Before joining Sciences Po in 2006, Filiu was a care ...

, Gaza: A History , , - , 2015 , , Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation , , - , 2015 ,

Elias Sanbar Elias Wadih Sanbar () (born 1947) is a Palestinian historian, poet, essayist, translator and diplomat. Since 2012, he has been the Palestinian ambassador to UNESCO. During the late 1960s, Sanbar was a member of the French branch of the General U ...

, The Palestinians: Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day , , - , 2014 ,

Ali Abunimah Ali Hasan Abunimah (, Arabic: ; born December 29, 1971) is a Palestinian-American journalist who advocates a one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. A resident of Chicago who contributes regularly to publications such as the ...

, The Battle for Justice in Palestine , , - , 2014 , Diana Allan , Refugees of Revolution: Experiences of Exile , , - , 2014 , Salim Tamari,

Issam Nassar Issam Nassar (), is a Palestinian historian of photography in Palestine and the Middle East.Rashid Khalidi Rashid Ismail Khalidi (; born 18 November 1948) is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He served as editor of the '' Journal of Palestine St ...

, Brokers of Deceit: How the US had undermined peace in the Middle East , , - , 2013 , Penny Johnson,

Raja Shehadeh Raja Shehadeh (Arabic: رجا شحادة, born 6 July 1951) is a Palestinian lawyer, human rights activist and writer. He co-founded the award-winning Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq in 1979. In 2008, he won the Orwell Prize, a Bri ...

, Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home , , - , 2012 , Ben White , Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy , , - , 2012 ,

Sara Roy Sara M. Roy (born 1955) is an American political economist and scholar. She is a Research Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Roy's research and over 100 publications focus on the economy of Gaza and more r ...

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